Speak Out ... King won't back down
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Re "King and Kingpin" (Speak Out, May 25): Letter writer Skip Tucker (Alabama Voters Against Lawsuit Abuse) is an able mouthpiece for those who pay him — the big pharmaceutical companies. It clearly upsets him that I strive to be an equally effective advocate for those who pay me — the people of Alabama. Tucker rhetorically asked whether I am switching parties. Let me emphatically answer "no!" I am a Republican because I believe government has a responsibility to protect its citizens. I am a Republican because I believe no one is above the law, no matter how rich or powerful he may be. And, as a Republican, I will not sit by and allow the single mothers working two jobs in this state in order to buy medicine for their kids to have their burdens increased because greedy corporations took more than their share of our Medicaid dollars. Tucker and I can agree on one thing — there is a veil of secrecy in Alabama. It is the one behind which those who stole hundreds of millions of dollars from Alabama's most vulnerable citizens acted. A Montgomery County jury saw what occurred behind that veil and responded with a $215 million verdict. Wrong is wrong, and I will seek to correct it. Alabamians can be sure of this — I will not back down in my pursuit of justice, no matter how often or how loudly Tucker complains. Troy King Re "What's worked" (Speak Out, May 21): Letter writer Robert Collins fails to prove his point that the Bible quotes itself out of context. His use of context is inaccurate. Jeremiah 31:16-17 is indeed referring to those children taken into captivity, but it was a poetic type of reference concerning Rachel mourning for her babies. Rachel was dead long before Jeremiah made the statement, and his statement was similarly just as fitting towards those babies being killed by Herod. The same explanation applies for John 13:18. David recites his message in Psalms applying it to his son Absalom, yet it applies equally well to that of Jesus and Judas Iscariot. Collins can find numerous types and anti-types used in this manner from the Old Testament. Even Genesis 3:15, God speaking to the serpent gives a subtle prophecy of Satan causing the death of Jesus and of His resurrection taking away Satan's power over death. So, you see, the seeming discrepancies aren't so discrepant. Collins is right about one thing, though. If you want to be an atheist and believe you will be simply dead and gone when you die, and you have no one to answer to except civil authorities, you can find many seeming errors with minimal study. Joel Hendon |
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