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This is Viewpoints for Saturday, May 21, 2016

Instructions coming

I guess now that an executive order has been passed making it mandatory to share the bathrooms will we have to quit saying “I’m going to the John”? “Going to the Jill,” just doesn’t sound right. I am sure we will receive guidelines shortly. City Hall should have instructions out to us soon. Then when they build their shine to themselves park they can eliminate any confusion for those who need to go.

Michael Collins, Centerville

Darkness into light?

Sin no longer crouches in the darkness fearing the righteous, but dances confidently in the sunlight protected by the Democratic Party, corporations, judges and entertainers. Sin undermines the moral foundation of a society, corrodes the fiber of humanity and violates divine and moral laws.

Abolishing the Christian Bible (the anti-sin book) from the public domain has made sin an old-fashion killjoy word without meaning. With the line between good and evil erased pornography, prostitution, drugs, gluttony, bestiality, homosexuality, deceit, adultery, abortions and others sinful acts have been successfully woven into the fiber of American life with little to no resistance.

This is why LGBT organizations have easily convinced a nation their perverted sinful desires are sanctioned by the Constitution; whereas, in the anti-sin book it isn’t.

The LGBT lifestyle is forbidden by every mayor religion, violates natural laws, slaps the face of God and is rejected by every civilized society except ours. President Obama has now ordered public school systems to introduce the LGBT’s sinful depravities into their student’s bathrooms and showers; again, with little resistance from the Christian population.

American Christians are and continue to be complainers and accommodators and not staunch defenders of their faith. This is why America now grasps the hand of Satan and not the hand of God. Blessed nations that have done this are no longer?

Travis L. Middleton, Peach County

‘It ain’t about you’

As a former aircrewman in high performance aircraft for the Marine Corps, I finally succumbed to “that surgery” that most macho fighter jocks don’t like to talk about in public. As I was brought into the treatment room, I was told to disrobe, and handed a towel with which I was to cover myself (for modesty’s sake). I thought to myself that after all those years as a serviceman, modesty was the last thing on my mind. When the proctologist and surgical assistant, both female, entered the room, I realized that “it ain’t about me!” Had I said to the surgeon that “I self-identify as a woman today,” that wouldn’t have changed anything from her perspective. Public bathrooms fit into the same category, and others deserve the same respect. If you stand to pee, go where there’s a urinal. It ain’t about you, either.

Dan Topolewski, Kathleen

Jobs executive order

The bombshell dropped on us the other day saying that they are going to force unisex bathrooms is shocking. And it is shocking for one specific reason: Who now becomes responsible for the seat? Is it to be left up, or is it to be left down? This will no doubt call for an executive order or maybe an act of Congress. Not that the TSA has been a waste of time and money, but just think, otherwise unemployed people can now get a government position as Lid Placement Manager in every school, public building, restaurant, church, gas station and highway rest stop. That’s what it’s all about. The current administration can leave office showing how they completely eliminated unemployment.

James Huber, Centerville

Language

George Orwell pointed out how government can fool and control the masses by simply changing the language to prevent thoughts proscribed by that government. Barack Obama’s regime has taken this truism to absurd heights. Calling abortions “pro choice” is an excellent example. Calling unequal treatment of racial classes “affirmative action” is another. Obama denies terrorism has any ties to Islam by simply changing the language so that “Islamic terrorist” cannot be spoken without cries of bigotry, Islamaphobia and racism against anyone who uses clear language. He called the slaughter at Ft Hood, “workplace violence,” even though the Muslim shooter yelled “Allahu Akbar” as the carnage took place.

Obama is right now releasing violent felons from prisons back into our communities, while refusing to deport violent criminal illegal aliens in favor of unsupervised release. As cover for Obama’s refusal to put citizen safety ahead of his ideology (his first constitutional priority), loony liberal Democrats are actually arguing that increasing the number of criminals on the street does not lead to increases in crime rates. So, now, rapists, armed robbers and drug dealers aren’t criminals but are now known as “justice involved individuals,” not felons.

No need to mention his latest egregious edicts forcing his ideology on unwilling citizens via his bathroom wars and persecution of Christian bakers and even the Little Sisters of the Poor for deeply held religious beliefs previously thought to be constitutionally protected free speech. He has seven months to continue his Marxist fight against decency and tradition

John Brogden, Warner Robins

Insight Into what?

The only insight provided by Anita Kumar in the April 30 issue of The Telegraph is the insight into the fantasy world of the Obama haters. In this “fact free” world the economic and social wreckage left behind after eight years of George and Dick healed itself in some mysterious manner, and Osama Bin Laden accidently shot himself.

In this world none of the many accomplishments of the Obama administration are recognized, or if they are, they are denigrated or minimized. (If President Obama were to discover a cure for cancer, he would be attacked for putting oncologist and medical workers out of jobs.)

In this world any bad thing that happens is blamed on President Obama from having the milk cows go dry to demonstrations at Trump rallies. Completely ignoring the fact that the Republican leadership got together at the beginning of Obama’s first term and agreed to oppose anything he wanted to do, and the fact that Sen. Mitch McConnell promised that his job was to make Obama a one-term president.

Residents of this world, like Kumar and her ilk, blame the “politics of anger, fights and division” on him. (I understand that Mitch is taking credit for keeping President Obama from a third term.) And this does not even count having a TV network (FOX noise) against him and rabid talk show hosts, frothing at the mouth and howling into the ether.

So, Obama haters, I am so sorry you have had to endure eight years of having a well-educated, intelligent, black man as president as opposed to the “C” student from Texas you so adored, but your long night of misery is almost over.

Maybe you’ll like Hillary better.

Charles J. Pecor, Macon

This story was originally published May 20, 2016 at 9:00 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Saturday, May 21, 2016."

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