Author Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer 1945)

The focus of so many that claim to be the righteous and the messengers or enforcers of God forget that our Constitution does not identify this nation as having only one God. The line is “Endowed by their Creator” not God. Let us again be a nation that welcomes all who seek freedom and that includes the freedom of domination by any group or organization that runs around spouting isms from a book written by men for men with a complete disregard for anyone else’s view save their own. The separation of church and state was not an accident. Our founders had seen the results of church states and they were determined not to make this country another victim of religious dictates. Roe vs Wade, gender issues, racial issues, the use of medications or science in treatments are all issues that religious groups have problems with and those problems are magnified when devotees are given the power to make the decisions for the rest of us. We have adopted the habit of swearing in someone with one hand on the Bible and yet if that person is not of that faith or does not believe in a higher being does it mean anything and if they do not tell the truth can you justly punish them? At present our higher beings are people that consider themselves as Gods and have no problem with shaping the nation as they see fit, those included are members of the Supreme Court, former President, and a good number of Governors of various states. Time to cut off Medusa’s heads and get back to common sense and the good of the majority not the minority.