Royal wedding deeply spiritual
The royal wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton was beautifully spectacular.
The most striking aspect of the ceremony in Westminster Abbey was that it was deeply spiritual. Considering the fact that Judeo-Christian marriage was instigated by God over 6,000 years ago in the garden of Eden, nothing on earth has equaled it in importance.
Both William and Kate seemed to enter into their union with a realization of the commitment they were making to each other.
Marriage as described in the New Testament is a thrilling picture of Christ's love for His church, a devotion that endures forever.
The Scripture read and the songs sung at this royal wedding were God-honoring.
I was very moved and intend to pray for this young couple. I cherish our ties with Great Britain.
RACHEL DECOSIMO
Focus the fight on lung cancer
This Mother's Day, I ask your readers to turn their attention toward the deadliest form of cancer among women: lung cancer. Lung cancer will kill nearly twice as many women this year as breast cancer, almost 200 women per day. Anyone - people who smoke, have smoked in the past, and those who have never smoked - can get lung cancer.
In October 2010, my healthy, non-smoking, 47-year-old sister was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. We are fortunate. She has responded very well to the chemotherapy and radiation used to kill the cancer cells. It looks like she may get more time to enjoy with her husband and two beautiful little girls. Most people at this stage of the disease aren't as fortunate. Great strides are being made in lung cancer research, but more is yet to be done!
We owe it to all of the important women in our lives to finally start fighting back against lung cancer. I am advocating for change along with the National Lung Cancer Partnership, and making a donation in honor of the important women in my life this Mother's Day at www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org/honormothers. Please join me in supporting this important effort.
ANN SEAMAN
Knoxville
Obama world view isn't American
I must address the "Whoopies" of the country who count it racism to criticize President Obama.
I assure anyone who cares to check that after 30 years of caring for all races (I have washed and cared for more African-Americans than Whoopie Goldberg has seen or met in her lifetime). My criticism has nothing to do with skin color.
But any Southern mother tells her children to be careful who your friends are because their reputations will rub off on you and influence your behavior and reputation.
President Obama has only disdain for the U.S.A. Born in Hawaii but raised in Indonesia, his world view is not American; his contemporaries are radicals, socialists, who long for the overthrow of the Constitution; radical, apostate clergymen who have forgotten the gospel; the Chicago mentality of "I'll get you first, whatever means necessary."
This is not just my opinion but based on Obama's every action as he puts it to the public. Every manipulator thinks this can last forever, but in the end, that is not true.
GAIL BLAYLOCK
HUDSON
(R.N. Retired)
Editors want it both ways
Editors speak with forked tongues in the May 2 edition. "Since 'too-high' spending rather than 'too-low' taxes created the huge national debt, we do not believe higher taxes are a solution."
You want lower government spending except when it comes to advertising revenues for your paper.
"A step in right direction" is a good spin on how you twisted legislators' arms to kill efforts to lower the cost of government.
The federal tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 have done what?
You are surely old enough to remember the economy in the late 1990s when the country ran a surplus. Those tax rates that made the economy hum are too high for greedy folk like you.
"Let's face financial problem." Doesn't the problem you are spinning stem from the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003? By the way, weren't those tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 supposed to make the economy hum again and weren't they made temporary because Congress couldn't figure out how to pay for them?
BEN WALKER
Rocky Face, Ga.
Henry leadership good for schools
It was my privilege to have served as principal and director of elementary schools of Hamilton (County) schools for 32 years, plus three years as a member of the Hamilton County Board of Education.
Twenty-four of those years I was principal of Westview Elementary School. My children attended the East Brainerd Elementary School.
Thus you can see my interest in this great community and especially our schools.
I commend our East Brainerd area's Hamilton County commissioner, Mr. Larry Henry, and now our chairman of the Hamilton County Commission, for his efforts and leadership to purchase the David Brainerd Christian School property when it became available toward relief for our schools in East Brainerd.
It is good to have his leadership of our Hamilton County and East Brainerd.
ROY H. WHITMIRE