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Court decisions are disturbing

To the editor: Congratulations, straight, white people. You won big with the Supreme Court last week. I’m one of you. So why am I not celebrating? In one fell swoop, the Supreme Court of our United States struck down affirmative action for college admissions, halted the student loan relief program and made it a constitutional right for businesses to refuse to serve members of a protected class. This is living in America in 2023. A Colorado woman argued she shouldn’t have to provide her services as a web designer for any couples seeking a website for their same sex wedding. The ...

Misnomers disguise evil

To the editor: A misnomer is the act of applying a wrong name to a thing, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary. The Democrat party and the left use misnomers to try to fool us into accepting actions that many people feel are evil. The following are examples of those misnomers. The terms “women’s health care” and “reproductive rights” are used to try to persuade us to accept and support abortion at all times during pregnancy and to allow the killing of aborted babies who live through the abortion. There are many aspects to women’s health care and reproductive ...

Bragg decision was correct

To the editor: The recent renaming of the U.S. military base in North Carolina to henceforth be formally known as Fort Liberty, which had been previously known as Fort Bragg in honor of the controversial Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, which was so named upon its opening during World War I, more than 100 years ago, was quite appropriate. This was done as a result of an act of Congress to rename such facilities in order to more appropriately honor our great nation, as opposed to lionizing those who elected to depart from the Union in order to wage war against what actually had ...

Don’t give up your rights

To the editor: These politicians in Columbus claim that Issue One defends our Constitution from special interests, but that is an enormous lie. The changes that will come about if we pass Issue One, such as raising the threshold to pass an amendment to 60 percent, requiring signatures to come from all 88 counties and eliminating the 10-day cure period, would make it easier for really rich people and giant out-of-state special interests to buy our Constitution. Think about it — Issue One won’t stop the need for Constitutional amendments – they will still happen. But it will ...

Vote no on Issue One

To the editor: Voting no on Issue 1 protects our freedoms and majority rule. For more than a century, Ohio citizens have been able to pass an amendment to the state Constitution with a simple majority of votes. Issue 1 threatens majority rule and allows only 40 percent of voters to stop proposals that are supported by 60 percent. The Constitution belongs to the people of Ohio and we have a right to amend it with a popular majority. We must all do our civic duty. Working families in this state deserve the ability to have a say in what our Constitution says and who gets to amend it. ...

Happy Pride Month

To the editor: As I write this, it’s the last week of Pride Month. Did you know that 17 other things claim the month? From Alzheimer’s to PTSD, yet it’s only one that religious zealots attack every June, Pride. No one is forcing everybody to celebrate Pride — the government isn’t mandating that people must buy Pride merchandise, fly a flag etc. yet some people lose their minds every June over rainbows, glitter and words like love, acceptance and kindness. It’s very confusing that the words their savior spoke they find offensive one month a year. Certain zealots have ...