Kudos to Mayor Berke for fiscal leadership
Mayor Berke is proving to be an exemplary leader of Chattanooga right out of the gates. In particular, his responsible fiscal leadership and stewarding of resources of our city is refreshing and encouraging.
Together we can continue to use well the fiscal, natural and community resources of Chattanooga to make it a leading city in the United States — an exceptional place to live, work, play, visit, treasure and share.
JASON MITCHELL
Don’t equate gay marriage, rights
The Free Press’ Drew’s Views entry of June 14 draws equivalence between the civil rights movement of the ’60s and those seeking to codify gay marriage. Drew Johnson suggests that anyone opposing this perversion (gay marriage) will surely be held in contempt and disgust.
Johnson brings to mind the old saying about “The blind leading the blind.” Any reader of this newspaper who actually takes this man seriously is deeply in trouble. For there is no equivalence in our fellow Americans, who happened to be black and sought equal rights under the Constitution, and those who now demand that society approve their desire to engage in the perversion of gay marriage.