Help keep WDYN the way it is
To fellow WDYN listeners and supporters:
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