Religious liberty under assault

A recent letter to the editor praised the Washington Legislature for redefining marriage as equal rights – not limiting matrimony to one man and one woman. He denigrates the taxpayers who are taking their own time and treasure to get signatures for Referendum 74. The taxpayers already paid for several special sessions for a Legislature supposedly working on the budget. Why do citizens have to expend their energy to undo lousy legislation?

Thank goodness for C-SPAN; otherwise I might have missed the gathering of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. The topic was religious liberties. One guest speaker was a U.S. Army chaplain. He recounted, “When you do what is right you catch hell.” The social engineering of the armed forces has taken away the freedom of military chaplains, the troops and their families. The Department of Defense advocated the Defense of Marriage Act – one man and one woman – but that is being ignored under this evolving commander in chief.

There is a spiral of silence descending over this land.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Donna Kuhn

Spokane