OPINION:
Nothing better illustrates the great divide in our culture than this “winter holiday” display in a public library (“Library takes down holiday-reading display featuring Bible lumped in with sexually explicit books,” Web, Dec. 8). On one side are traditionalists with values and world view shaped by a Judeo-Christian tradition. It is the tradition our Founders drew upon to craft a government that would provide freedom and opportunity and become the envy of the world.
On the other side, we have a secular, pagan left that is pushing collectivism in pursuit of their Utopian dreams as they sexualize our children and struggle to topple every last remaining taboo, including pedophilia. John Adams understood freedom when he wrote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Unfortunately the Constitution has become but a speed bump for those on the left, as they routinely ignore it. And freedom for them is simply the absence of morality. Both visions of America can’t be right. One is tried and true while the other leads to tyranny.
THOMAS M. BEATTIE
Mt. Vernon, Va.
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