The death of religion in America

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 […]

Response to Christian bigotry

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 […]

Civil rights in America today

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 […]