Monkey on many backs

Sat., Aug. 1, 2015

Admittedly, all I know about it is what I read in The Spokesman-Review, and what I see and hear on TV. As I understand it, Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing none-too-tactfully, jokingly compared President Obama and Michelle Obama to monkeys. I agree that was not nice. However, all the brouhaha over the matter somewhat puzzles me.

Scads of people, including even the pope himself, claim that we all came to be as the direct result of evolution. In other words, they insist that we all came from monkeys. Seems to me that any of Rushing’s critics who subscribe to evolution and lambaste him are at least as guilty as he is.

Ken Campbell

Deer Park

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