Don’t be quick to judge others
To the elderly man who was speaking to an older woman and her adult daughter standing in the parking area of Chattanooga Skin and Cancer on May 10 at about noon:
I overheard your conversation where you were talking about a Sunday school teacher’s wife. I will not use his name as you did.
With sarcasm/contempt/scorn in your booming voice, you told of how his wife sobbed every Sunday while at the altar praying. You said it was “all for show” and that her husband should “sit her down and tell her to control herself”; “that she was an embarrassment to him.” I have to ask you, sir, since when can we as humans see inside a person’s heart and know what burdens they carry? Who are you to judge how she expresses herself as she prays? Is it set in stone that a person can’t shed tears while they are praying?
God answers our prayers in his time, not ours. Also, when a person comes into the presence of God, it’s natural for tears to flow. In my opinion, it is people like you who are what’s wrong with the church today and tearing it down.
Angela Jeffers
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Abortion laws must be unconstitutional
The Constitution is clear in freedom of religion. To me that means that religions cannot get states or federal government to force their beliefs on others.
Clearly the recent rash of anti-abortion laws supported by the religious right is not proper under the Constitution. If the Supreme Court clearly believes in the Constitution, then it must find these laws unconstitutional.
Roger Thompson, Tullahom
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Statistics found to fit gun narrative
In Pam Sohn’s Chattanooga Times May 5 editorial, “School shootings more numerous than reported,” she referenced a report that stated there were 1,360 school shootings since 1970. That would be 27.7 per year or two per month.
The standard for crime statistics in this country is the FBI. The FBI document titled “2000-2017 Active Shooter Incidents” has color-coded categories depicting the type of shooting. This report shows there were 53 school shootings in 17 years. That is an average of 3.1 shootings per year.
Sohn’s source was The Center for Homeland Defense and Security. It is a private school focusing on homeland security education that gives home degrees.
Those numbers just don’t make common sense. Two shootings per month would be noticed in the news. The FBI statistics can be trusted because it has no agenda and no political motivation to lie. Sohn was “report shopping” to find one that fit the narrative she wanted. Typical liberal tactic.
Using obscure, biased information to make a point is dishonest. It proves that Sohn is just another liberal pushing an anti-gun agenda using dead children to do it. Now you know why journalists have a lower approval rating than Congress.
Tim Price