Editor:
Tell me why our Republican state legislators recently passed a bill requiring the managers of Atlanta's airport to allow concealed weapons owners to carry their guns into the food courts, lobby and baggage claim areas. Their ridiculous, over-the-top enthusiasm for the gun lobby was manifested by their vote to get rid of the "no gun safety zone around our schools" as well as allowing concealed weapons in bars if (bar) owners agree.
Governor Sonny Perdue is a willing tool of the N.R.A. with his views that we are not safe anywhere in our state, especially in parking lots and believing that our guns are in danger of being confiscated by big government or that those on the Terrorist Watch List should be allowed to purchase guns and explosives.
When I go the Atlanta airport the last thing I want to see are armed citizens with loaded pistols stalking around. Our U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder finds this "very worrisome."
So do I.
FRANK W. GADBOIS
Warner Robins
SCOTUS selection falls flat
Editor:
Well, it seems that a lot of people have weighed in on President Obama’s latest nominee to be a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The left is praising the nomination and a few on the right are raising some doubts about it.
I ask you to think back just a few years when President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers and both liberals and conservatives had so many questions about her credentials that she withdrew her name for consideration. Fast forward to now. Some of the Democrats who howled to high heaven about the lack of credentials of Harriet Miers are either silent or praising Elena Kagan as a great choice. It does not matter that Kagan’s credentials are far less than Miers’ , it only matters that it is Obama’s nominee. How hypocritical is that?
But, what should really cause concern for us Americans that believe that homosexuality is immoral and thinks that Marriage should be between a man and a woman is Elena Kagan’s opposition to the military’s “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” policy and her apparent opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). She is part of the Department of Justice that filed a brief which declared “this Administration does not support DOMA as a matter of policy and believes it is discriminatory. These are two (2) issues that are bound to make it to the Supreme Court and she has already let her opinion (be) known.
While Dean of the Harvard Law School, Kagan threw military recruiters off campus on the grounds of opposing the law prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the military. “This action causes me deep distress,” Kagan wrote. “I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy”. It is a “profound wrong – a moral injustice of the first order.” But, fortunately, the eight (8) Justices that were sitting on the Supreme Court at that time unanimously voted to overturn her policy.
While I am at it, there is another issue that we should be concerned with and that is the way that this Administration has inserted itself in Christian activities. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was scheduled to speak at a Chaplain’s conference at Andrews Air Force Base. However, after he was critical of Obama’s “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” policy this Administration asked that he be disinvited. Also, this Administration requested that the Rev. Franklin Graham be disinvited from speaking at the National Day of Prayer after some Muslim groups did not like him telling the truth about the Muslim religion being violent and oppressive to women. What’s coming next? Will a Christian Chaplin be allowed to stand in a military Chapel and preach the truth about the immorality of homosexuality? Or, will a new edict come down censoring them?
AARON HUFSTETLER
Chairman,
Houston County Republicans
Seems logical to me.