Bathroom bill does not serve majority
This is about an April 15 letter to the editor headlined “Tennessee should exit Stone Age.”
The writer stated that Tennessee needs to exit the Stone Age by accepting the transgender bathroom bill.
According to the latest Gallup poll, the LGBT community is only 3.8 percent of the total U.S. population. That means that 96.2 percent of the population is not LGBT.
Why should 96.2 percent of the population change our lifestyle to accommodate 3.8 percent? It doesn’t make sense.
Byron J. Hendrix, Cleveland, Tenn.
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Veterans deserve even more support
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, our government gave on average $1.8 million to 2,977 victims’ families.
The amount received depended on age and education; more than 10 percent of the victims were foreigners.
Congress gave up to $4.4 million to the 53 Iran hostages. Congress said the money was a gift from a foreign nation.
When the Oklahoma City Federal Building was blown up, 168 victims died, including 19 children. The surviving children got free education. Families got $0 from Congress.
Our government, including Sen. John McCain, thinks the best way to honor and serve veterans is to give them a free education.
For example, if a war veteran comes home with both legs and an arm missing, educate him for a desk job. The VA gives an entitlement rating from 10 percent to 100 percent, depending on the severity of the disability. It would take a senator to help veterans receive what is needed to meet standards.
That senator would have to bribe 99 others for support. A dozen committees would have to spend weeks determining which federal programs to cut in order to support veterans.
Wait, that is too much work!
Robert Taylor
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No love for Hart for Catholic slurs
Ron Hart was way out of line with his Friday “commentary” on Pope Francis and the Catholic Church: his tongue-in-cheek referral to the Bible being like the iPhone User Agreement, Communion compared to a happy hour snack, putting Jesus and priests on the same level with Oprah, mentioning “Mother Teresa-types” even though he credits them with doing good worldwide, and considering the story of the Virgin Mary suitable for “The Maury Povich Show” (insulting her further by suggesting the church should excommunicate her for in vitro fertilization).
I am appalled by his mockery of a holy man revered by the whole world whom he calls “Bernie Sanders-like” and of the sacred sacrament of Holy Communion, overlooking the fact that priests came from families that certainly experienced all the blessings and problems of marriage, and especially by his degradation of the Mother of God.
This columnist owes an apology to Catholics and Christians everywhere.
Helen Burton, Cleveland, Tenn.
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Abortion, religion may not be linked
During the Wisconsin primary exit polls, a woman was asked, “Who did you vote for and why?” She replied, “I voted for Ted Cruz because he is a Christian.”
Trump tried to prove his Christianity by showing his mother’s Bible and that he belongs to the Presbyterian tradition of Christianity. Cruz very proudly talked about his father, an evangelical preacher.
Should we vote for a person because he says he’s a Christian?
Recently, Trump was questioned by Chris Matthews. “If abortion was banned and a woman gets an abortion, should she be punished?” Trump answered, “There should be some kind of punishment.”
Some Christians believe a woman has a right to do with her body as she pleases. Others say, “What about the unborn child?”
Does Trump’s position on abortion have anything to do with his religion? Trump is more concerned about the unborn baby rather than how the woman arrived to this point.
Hypothetically, if the woman should be punished, then what about the man who cohabited with her?
Now Trump is not any less a Christian on his position than Cruz or any other Christian.
Amos Taj, Ooltewah