PUBLIC VIEWPOINT

Antireligious Court Verdicts Harm United States

The judicial branch of our government has marginalized God’s Word and slowly endorsed sin.

In 1947 the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) separated church and state. In reality, the 1st Amendment separates the state from the church, not the church from the state.

In 1962 SCOTUS banned prayer from public schools.

The cross and Christ’s name have become off ensive Christian artifacts banned from public places.

In 1973 SCOTUS legalized the killing of human beings.

More than 55-million of God’s children have been murdered.

In 2003 SCOTUS struck down all anti-sodomy laws - biblical abominations.

In 2012 a second federal judge declared that the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause and discriminates against samesex marriages. Will SCOTUS sustain these irreverent decisions?

The institution of marriagewas created by God joining a man and a woman as one.

(Mark 1:1-12) Judicial religion mocks God’s creation.

The church-world has allowed judicial religion to seduce it into believing that God’s Word and Christians represent wrongdoing in this country. Christians must commit themselves to undoing this immoral trend in our society and aff ecting the insidious antireligious verdicts established by the false religion of the Judicial Branch.

Christ-followers trust and have faith in the living Heavenly Father and Christ, not man.

The Bible is God’s last will and testimony; it declares man’s pathway into eternal life in heaven is through Christ Jesus. (John 14:6)

HIRAM B. COOPER

Bella Vista

VOTE WASN’T RACIST

It is interesting to read the

opinions of Barack Obama supporters who accuse theiropponents of racism. One writer states that since a majority of whites voted against Obama, they are racists. What does that say for the 95 percent of black votes against Romney?

Certainly racial prejudice exists, but I take issue with anyone calling me a racist because I disagree with the policies or beliefs of a minority candidate.

I voted against Obama, not because of his skin color.

I am against his support of homosexual marriage, his push to expand the murder of unborn children of all colors and creeds, his push to make me pay for contraceptives that will enhance the unhealthy and immoral lifestyle of young women, and his failed policies that do harm to this country’s financial well-being. I would have voted against Mr.

Obama whether he was black, white, green or purple.

I didn’t vote against the color of his skin but the darkness of his heart.

DALE LANGE

Bella VistaCHANGE

ATHLETICS JOB We do not need a vice chancellor for athletics. We need an “athletic director,” preferably one who bleeds Razorback red.

(The board of trustees should) do away with the vice chancellor for athletics position as well as the man who occupies it. The Hog fans come from all walks of life, but most of them have somewhat limited fi nancial assets. Yes, we thank those wealthy fans for their support, but most of the seats are filled by non-wealthy people who inherited their tickets from their parents.

I had season tickets for football for 52 years and attended basketball games when Bamhill had sawdust fl oors.

Remember the man removed from the chancellorship for giving a fired coach $500,000? John White’s last hire was Mr.

Long, and he is spending money like a drunken sailor.

We need an athleticdirector who has the best interest of the Razorback nation at heart. And exactly who is in charge of the Razorback Foundation?

Now that Jeff Long has infiltrated the foundation it comes under a lot of rules and regulations that makes building facilities a lot more expensive. Good move, Jeff .

ELIZABETH COGER

Fayetteville

ATTACKS NOT GOOD NEWS

In (a recent) issue you

published a commentary by one Christian minister attacking another named Christian minister (Opinion, Nov. 18). It is way above my pay grade to figure why this bit of intramural heckling merited 23 column inches on your opinion pages. However, as an occasionally bewildered seeker of the Light, I was embarrassed for the good reverend who thought it was more important to attack another bearer of the Good News than simply to bear the Good News himself.

Many of us who try to follow the Christ believe that reconciliation with God can never be earned by being right in our understanding;

rather, we have been made right in spite of our understanding through an undeserved gift that we accept in amazement by saying yes. This is Good News indeed. It is simple.

It is unbearably liberating.

It changes lives. A changed iie shines with refl ected light. Those who see this are attracted to the Source of the light. And so the Good News is passed along.

Attacks on fellow servants do not attract those who need to hear this good news.

It may be that the Christian message is becoming a minority opinion because too many hear only doctrinal judgments instead of a simple freeing truth. Let your light shine, reverend, but please don’t cast a shadow by standing in the way of others who carry same light.

GEORGE OLESON

Winslow

Opinion, Pages 12 on 12/02/2012

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