I was going to write today about the recent letters proclaiming America as a Judeo-Christian nation and the false notion the Founding Fathers Bible thumped their way to independence against a religiously oppressive monarchy with the hopes of establishing a religiously oppressive democracy. Yeah, like that’s what they wanted. With non-belief rising in America, and […]
This is a Daily Telegram response to this letter. Here is the published letter. To the editor, In response to Ken Nichols’ letter Mar. 24 in The Daily Telegram: My, oh my, what bigotry do we have here? As an American Mr. Nichols can preach, pray and believe in whatever fairy tale he chooses to dictate the sick […]
This was published in the Tecumseh Herald and was in response to this letter. To the Editor, This is in response to Ronda Keck’s letter in the Sept. 10, 2012 issue. Who makes the rules? In a democratic republic, we, the people, have the freedom to elect officials to represent us in local, state, and […]
When the Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence some 240 years ago, the small part about “all men are created equal” was only held to be true for white men who owned property, disenfranchising those of different races and of certain sub-socioeconomic creeds. Slavery was a common practice then, with many of the founding […]
Anthony Alaniz 