LETTERS

LITTLE ROCK — Responsible for result

In response to Gary McLehaney’s and Jodie Harper’s letters, I must respond that they are ill-informed.

Life begins at conception. An unborn child has a heartbeat, kicks and sucks its thumb. A life only grows if it is alive and well.

Before my daughter’s baby was born, I talked to her. When she was born and I spoke to her, she became very alert, looking around for my voice. That baby recognized my voice. When you choose to have unprotected sex,you are responsible for carrying the baby to term. It doesn’t matter that you are inconvenienced by the weight gain, the heartburn or discomfort. There are many couples in America that are crying to adopt a child. Couples that cannot have children and long for them. It is not up to us to determine what child in the womb might be a murderer or rapist. What if Martin Luther King’s mother had chosen to have an abortion? What if Bill Gates’ mother had chosen abortion? What if your own mothers had chosen abortion?

Thank God for the mothers who are compassionate enough, and brave enough to have a child and give it up to a deserving family. If you choose to have sex, be responsible for the outcome. Or don’t have sex. It’s just that simple.

DONNA SLATON

Eureka Springs

Reaping what’s sown

We were like you once. We were very protective of our money, so much so that we went about each day focusing our resources on our insular lives. Of course we occasionally donated to charities and we spent a nominal amount on gifts and whatnot. Still, we failed to realize that we’d been overlooking the most important, the most necessary and the most deserving beneficiary of our money: God.

By this we mean that we failed to pay our tithes and offerings like the Bible directs. At least 10 percent of every bit of our income must go to God’s church.

Coincidentally, we have a really great church home, one which is full of wonderful and warm people. So we decided to have faith in God’s word and begin tithing. You see, the Bible says that if we tithe like we’re supposed to, then God will repay us by opening the windows of heaven and pouring down a blessing until there is no more need. Now, thankfully, we serve our Lord God by supporting our church’s effort to reach one and all with his message of peace, sanctity and a life of righteous living.

And you know what happened once we began paying our tithes? God poured down his blessing on us in multiple ways too marvelous to name. Thus, by paying tithes to your church freely and with an open heart you, too, can reap what you’ve sown.

BRAD BLEVINS

Rogers

Have to let you go …

With the sequester looming and the obvious inability or unwillingness of Congress to prevent it, I have a simple solution. Let the sequester cutbacks apply to Congress as well as thousands of other government employees. Maybe the prospect of laying off 44 to 48 congressmen (I’ll let you decide which ones) will stir them into action.

JON ZIMMER

Fayetteville

Stand up for America

The time was 1:09 in the middle of the night after the State of the Union address our president presented so eloquently. I do not normally watch this address, thinking that it is just rhetoric and holds no weight in the halls of Congress. As I lay awake, thinking of the words of the president, my mind started to question. Does our president understand that his many ideas presented are an increase in spending? Oh, they were so many wonderful ideas to help many people. They were even noble ideas. In the back of my mind I had to wonder if the president really understands addition. I have been made aware in the past month of the amount of debt that our country is adding each day, over $3 billion a day.

I know that our country cannot continue on this path and still be the “land of opportunity” for the coming generations-like my 11 grandchildren. I am deeply concerned for them. I must have been subconsciously hoping that our president would talk at length about how (in definite terms) he planned to resolve this looming dark cloud that is on the horizon. As I lay in bed, the image of a snake in the grass just kept creeping back into my thoughts. I found myself asking God if that is what we are dealing with. Is this man really trying to lull us to sleep like the python in The Jungle Book? I pray for a smart cat to come along and wake us from our slumber. I say “Enough.”

Please, someone in Congress, stand up for us Americans.

MARION HOTZ

Russellville

To make right choices

Don’t want a baby? Don’t have sex! Politicians in Little Rock have proposed three different abortion bills, including one that bans abortions after 20 weeks, and another banning them as soon as a heartbeat can be detected. These bills are completely necessary and, I feel, are acceptable. People may say these bills are taking away women’s rights and violate women, but as it see it, abortion is murder and these bills are not only protecting the unborn child, but also the mothers.

I hope these bills are passed, and I feel Sen. Jason Rapert is right when he speaks about the concerns of abortion and the process of banning abortion in Arkansas. These bills are nothing more than protection and what is right and wrong. Not everyone in the state of Arkansas is informed well enough and educated enough to make the right decisions, and with these bills, the right choices will be made.

BETHANIE GRANT

Sherwood

Came from nothing

Austin Stewart’s recent letter upset me. He seems to think that atheists are stupid for believing the Big Bang Theory.

Common sense tells me God and the Big Bang both had to come from nothing. This 87 year-old is enough of a man to face the fact that, when I die, all that will be left are ashes.

BILL MORELAND

Rogers

Not only for soldiers

I remember the day when only military installations had those tattoo parlors and bail-bond offices outside the front gate. Now it seems those operations have located their business outside many major universities where business is good. Too bad.

ANDY NEDOROLIK

Lonoke