In your Aug. 19 editorial, you ask “What do you think?” I think if the governor’s name was Timothy Kaine, you would fully support the privatizing plan. We are all aware that the abuse of alcohol is a terrible scourge in our society. You do not adequately make the case that abuse in a private ABC system would exceed that in the state-run system.
Your comments of “Money. Quick money. … Apparently he thinks Virginia will do just about anything for money,” are cheap shots, and they are not worthy of someone of your stature.
The article entitled “Is the Tea Party unbiblical? Depends on one’s perspective” [Herald, Aug. 19], could have “Republican Party” or “Democratic Party” substituted for “Tea Party,” and a similar argument could be made that either of those political parties are unbiblical.
A grass-roots organization like the Tea Party is difficult to define. However, this article casts all Tea Party followers as libertarians. Most Tea Party followers do not label themselves as libertarians. This article also uses the overly-biased David Gushee and Jim Wallis to support its thesis. Both of those two have been identified as pro-left spokesmen.
David Gushee’s judgmental label of “hatefulness” of some Christians is not worthy of print. Many Christians who oppose the Islamic mosque/community center near Ground Zero would have less of a problem with it if it were to be built 10 miles away from there. It is a no-brainer for most Americans to not allow our enemies to construct a memorial at the site of their greatest victory. Would we allow the Japanese to construct a Japanese shrine on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor? No, we would not.
What is very disturbing is that you are continuing to make the Religious Herald a pro-Democrat, left, liberal newsjournal. Do you really think Virginia Baptists want a state newspaper that has become increasing strident in support of one political party? Why don’t you change the name from the “Religious Herald” to the “Herald of the Democratic Viewpoint”? A better choice, since you repeatedly present only the left partisan political view, would be to balance it with some religious writers with a right-wing perspective.
Carl Douglas, Williamsburg