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A younger listener’s view: WDYN 89.7FM, Chattanooga, provides us with quality Christian programming, daily encouragement and teaching, Gospel music, and fun.
Sonrise focuses on the beginning of your day: sharing bits of wisdom, inspiring music and some smiles mixed with weather forecasts, news and traffic reports. At 7:45 a.m., it’s prayer time; a whole community of believers share this special time together at the throne of grace. Again, at 10:45 a.m., prayers and praises are lifted toward heaven.
Throughout the day, you can find Truths that Transform, a Love Worth Finding, some Insights for Living, your Turning Point, and more.
Your kids will love tuning in to Odyssey and you can enjoy your ride home with uplifting music, local news and events, traffic reports etc.
End your day with Nightside, Nightsounds, and Unshackled. Now, tell me, is there another station like WDYN? Could you find DJs with the same passion to share Jesus through radio? Is there another station with such a promise of prayer?
Are there DJs who you can call friends? WDYN has been our all Christian radio for more than 40 years. It should stay that way. Want to help? Go to: www.savewdyn.webs.com
ELSIE MILLER
LaFayette, Ga.
Muslims exploit First Amendment
It’s hard to cloak deception in the light of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment forbids America becoming theocratic.
Do Muslims believe in the entire First Amendment? Or only the part about the freedom to exercise their religion but not the part that forbids theocratic rule?
Muslims intend to build a new mosque near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. They praise the First Amendment for giving them the right to build it, but also believe in Sharia law that espouses theocracy. How ironic is that? — using the amendment that forbids theocracy to build an enclave that promotes it.
JAMES A. BOLT
Hixson
Some don’t grasp freedom of religion
Principled conservatives favor individual property rights over government interference.
Principled conservatives insist our Constitution must be our unerring guide.
Principled conservatives claim our Constitution means exactly what it says, and we may not bend its meaning to suit our current desires.
Unprincipled Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin have embraced expedient mob mentality, exactly what our Constitution protects us from. What part of freedom of religion do they not understand?
A Free Press editorial screams “Everything’s wrong about this,” claiming “there are clear reasons” to oppose building a mosque on private property near the World Trade Center site.
But the editorial doesn’t reveal any reasons, no principles, just a feeling “everything’s wrong.”
Is the Constitution wrong?
Are property rights wrong?
Some patriotic Americans who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attack favor allowing the mosque. Some oppose it, but their sensibilities cannot abridge other Americans’ fundamental rights.
Has the Free Press ever opposed building a church or synagogue?
When Glenn Beck and Palin rallied in Washington for a “return to principles,” did they support freedom of religion or just freedom of Christianity?
And how dare anyone dishonor the brave service of the 4,000 American Muslim soldiers serving in the U.S. military?
CHARLES MAHAN
Rising Fawn, Ga.
Marriage contract differs in one way
The marriage contract is being questioned in California and becoming a constitutional issue before the U.S. Supreme Court.
All features, except one, of a marriage contract can be present in any two-party contracts. The unique feature of a marriage contract is the agreement of a male and a female to reproduce themselves. This right is incapable of being legally alienated, surrendered, or transferred. The marriage contract must be retained for this unique purpose.
In marriage the indisputable proof of the two parties fulfilling the contract is found in the DNA of their offspring. This contract also provides offspring with the security of knowing his/her parentage. Without a legal marriage contract there is danger of incest reproduction.
Other forces which threaten marriage as an inalienable right are frequently based upon such things as: companionship, partnership, heterosexuality, homosexuality, fornication, and/or adultery.
We the people must retain and protect the inalienable right of a male and female to enter into a marriage contract for the unique purpose of reproducing themselves!
REX A. NELSON
Dalton, Ga.
College training is overrated
Congratulations to East Ridge, which is blessed to have a leader who didn’t attend college. Of all the over-rated combines in this country is that of a college degree.
I often thank the Lord, that in His Good providence, I was spared of being indoctrinated into the jaded philosophies of Darwin, Freud and Marx which are required to advance.
Of course, when I graduated from Central High, if you applied yourself, you had the equivalent of four years of college. Only the professions required advanced education. Of course, we had prayer and Bible reading then.
College omits ambition, common sense and patriotism. What you do gain is a respect for the your pumped-up air, once you are given the slap on the back from the Chief of Airs, the Ph.D. At UT graduation ceremonies I heard the graduates admonished to go out and raise taxes for the school. No wonder they hate Tea Parties.
If you have graduated from one of these institutions with a modicum of American ambition or common sense, humble yourself before the Lord and thank Him that you have passed through that fire with His Image.
JUNE GRIFFIN
Dayton, Tenn.
Omitted number reflects regulation
On Aug. 24, the Free Press editorialist lamented that it “took 231 days this year for the American people to pay the cost of government from all levels.” That number comes from Grover Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform.
Here is one of Norquist’s numbers omitted by the Free Press: 74 of those days represent his group’s estimate of the cost of government regulation — things like paying workers overtime, providing wheelchair access, and inspecting the nation’s food supply.
Some of your readers may remember when the FDA dragged baby-food maker Beech-Nut into court for fraudulently labeling artificially-flavored sugar water as “100 percent apple juice.” Real apples do cost more than malic acid, caramel color and corn syrup.
Subtract those 74 days, and we get a surprisingly accurate picture of the size of all government in the United States: 43 percent of GDP — which is how we pay for sewage plants, schools, veterans benefits, fire and police, interstate highways, and overseas adventures.
MARK LEWIS
Red Bank
Ms. Griffin, a college degree is not required to be accomplished, I agree. But there is no excuse for the ignorance you expressed in your letter. You can understand your world without a college degree, but it still takes a little effort, which I see you have not exerted beyond your religion. Sorry to be so harsh, but you insinuate that college degrees are themselves worthless, an insult to all the people I know who worked very hard to earn theirs.
Mr. Bolt, great point. They love that we have freedom of religion here, but their track record proves that they exhibit no tolerance for other faiths and will do anything to eliminate them. Any denial of that flies in the face of history, recent history, and facts. The Imam in question may state that he respects all faiths, but there's no evidence that the face of Islam, which is one of extreme violence against other faiths and non-believers, will ever be anything other than what it's always been since 600 a.d. They have to prove that they'll change. It's not up to everyone else to believe them just because they say they're tolerant. they have to prove it, and frankly, history and facts tell us otherwise.
Francis, please read the constitution. What you wrote flies in the face of what this country is all about. If Muslims in this country commit crime in the name of religion, then they can be prosecuted. Until then, they are protected by the constitution just like the rest of us. Do we ban Christian churches because a Christian man shot and killed an abortion provider?
I an curious why so many people come to the defense of the Muslims. The way we were raised it was not a good thing to defend people who broke the ten commandments. They think if they kill a non-Muslim it is enough to get them into Muslim heaven with all the perks. They worship something other than God. We are taught to tollerate all religions. Most of the terrorists have turned out to be Muslim. Not all of them, just most. To defend these people you are saying you are un-American. They want to destroy us and they hate us. Everytime I read where one of you people are on their side, it makes me sick. You label yourself as either stupid or un-American. No matter how unpoliticaly correct it is, I will always defend the American way which doesn't include being on the side of those who hate us. There are certain things in America that tradtionaly make our country great. Some of you would have us change these things just for the sake of political correctness. Call us ignorant, without facts, what ever. You are either for or against us.
lkeithlu, lighten up my friend. What if you are wrong?
nothing i wrote flies in the face of the constitution. mr. bolt's point is that extremist muslims want to take advantage of our system. once, again, if they have the permit, have bought the land and have permission to build it....who's going to stop them?
what has to be pointed out, is that their intentions are questionable, based on history, Muslims have crafted their own image by displaying extreme violence toward non-believers. who's banning mosques?....who can stop them from building it?
violent anti-abortionists are not the face of the christian church..whatever denomination. but, unfortunately..as seen on 9/11, the violent representatives of Islam continue to speak for the rest of Islam..or the more peaceful elements in Islam are no match for the more violent elem- ents.
you seem to have a problem with those of us who are using our first ammendment rights to voice our concern with this..a very legitimate con- ern. my problem with liberals is that they spend too much time trying to silence and ridicule opp- ostion rather than listen to opposing views which are mostly based on facts and history..and even common sense.
freedom of religion is not the issue here...it's the intention of those who are backing it. trying to soil someone by saying they don't read the constitution or believe in freedom of religion if they don't think this particular mosque/islamic center should be built on the site of an horrific slaughter that just happened... more-or-less.....is unproductive.
freedom of religion here is not being threatened, but, based on recent experience our safety may be. if those backing the mosque/islamic center, like hamas, view it as a symbol of conquest and a way of exporting their intolerance, then we have a reason to be concerned. i don't see anyone here demanding that the mosque 4 blocks away from ground zero be removed.
LoveforAmerica - I don't worship any god. Am I "un-American"? How about the Muslim I served in the Air Force with? Was he un-American too?
By the way, you also contradict yourself by saying you will always defend the American way, yet you want to deny fellow American citizens rights guaranteed under the Constitution. I think you just labeled YOURSELF as either stupid or un-American...
Throw a rock in a pack of dogs, the one it hits will yep.
Bookie, wrong about what? I am happy to be shown my errors. Be specific, please.
Ikeithlu, Don't take on June. I bet her doctor and dentist are self taught and work out of their vans. And there are a lot of part time Pharmasists in Rhea County that don't have a degree just their labs stuck back in the bushes.
Islam's public relations problem , or it's negative image, is it's own fault.
to scold people for their fears, which are based on reality, history and facts is minimizing it to say the least.
all peaceful, law-abiding, muslim americans are suffering because their faith has been hijacked by lunatics.
freedoms can be abused. if that islamic center is being used the way hamas, one of its backers, wants it to be used, to promote intolerance and violence...then freedom of religion is secondary to the safety of americans. just like if a christian church was training it's members to kill abortion- ists, then take action. though abortion to me is is a crime and sin, i would not condone the killing of an abortionist. nor would i accuse those who wanted action taken againt the church of not respecting freedom of worship.
Francis, until there is evidence that the congregation of this particular islamic center is planning to violate the law, we have NO right to interfere. Period.
Ignorance can be cured with education. You can't cure stupid.
Rex, Please send me a copy of that contract whereby all married people agree to reproduce themselves. I don't recall seeing that clause when I got my marriage license.
lkeithlu,
Totally agree with you. June is somewhat a political/religious wingnut, who has gained some notariety in this area. She calls in to 102.3 all the time, and I cannot help but turn off the radio when she calls in.
Responding to her is like speaking to a wall. Also, if I had to guess, she's a likely candidate for who Canaryinthecoalmine is. Just a thought.
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