Mooreover
I have a problem understanding why so many people have a problem with the removal of the Ten Commandments from Judge Moore’s judicial building.Evidently most of these so-called Christians cannot grasp the fact of this issue. Separation of church and state was taught by Jesus Christ, when he said, “Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God that which is God’s.”
This is clearly a statement for separation of church from state, to me.
Why today’s brainwashed Christian fanatics do not get it is beyond me. Do they just like to twist around things just to keep the argument going?
Maybe I just read a different meaning into this. Keep the Bill of Rights and political writings and laws out of the church, and vice versa.
Ronald H. White
Heflin
Birthday
I would like to speak out on Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday, which is Jan. 19. This letter is about a great American who was guided by something he believed to be the most precious quality in life. It was called a sense of honor, a force inside us, which not only tells us what is the right thing for us to do but also compels us to do it.
Robert Edward Lee of Virginia, who led the armies of the South in the war for Southern independence, walked straight on honor’s road all his life. If you are a Southern gentleman like Gen. Lee then you are born to a tradition of honor that demands a high standard of personal behavior, good citizenship, a willingness for public service, a sense of obligation to the less fortunate, a deep fierce loyalty to your family and to your state, and a firm belief in the goodness of God.
We want to remember Robert E. Lee on his birthday, because his sense of honor is what the American South so deeply needs today.
Ken Bundrum
Jacksonville
Buy American
We are going to start a war because Iraq has the same weapons that have been scattered across the United States for decades.To protect ourselves from terrorism we voted to eliminate the fourth, fifth and sixth amendments to the Constitution. Thirty percent of our Bill of Rights is now gone.
We buy TV movies, videos, books and magazines that sell sex and then arrest people who are attempting to buy or sell the real thing. You can sell it online but not on the street.
We idolize sports, TV and movie stars, all represented by unions that make them millionaires yet we do not support retail chain employees trying to organize in order to make more than minimum wage.
We are willing to pay if it entertains, but we will not pay extra for a “Union Made in the U.S.A.” label.
Everytime we buy an import instead of a domestic product we chip another piece of our Freedom Rock away.
We have been told that drug money supports terrorism, but the Sept. 11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, our oil supplier in the Middle East. We all use oil byproducts. When you buy your next tank full ask yourself, “Is it imported?
We have the technology, at least, to get passenger cars and light trucks off oil dependency. We should question why our government does not support eliminating the need for foreign oil? Write your senators and representatives and demand freedom and independence from foreign oil. Terrorism is being funded by U.S. dollars spent at the pumps.
Bill Jennings
Nashville, Tenn.
