Letters to the Editor

Letter: Racial discrimination

July 2, 2020 Katrina S. Conrad-Legler

The Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA), as the state’s premier organization defending the rights of accused persons, joins in the call to make the ideals of the “Black Lives Matter” movement a reality in our criminal justice system, from the moment of first contact with law enforcement. Racial profiling techniques such as “driving while…

Letter: Modern day ‘post turtles’

July 2, 2020 Glenn Jacobs

I am assuming you all know about “post turtles.” They don’t know how they got on top of fence posts. They didn’t get there by themselves, and they don’t know how to get down without getting hurt. With all due respect, you are “post turtles.” Furthermore, the crazies who have commandeered six blocks of Seattle…

Letter: Shocking Supreme Court

July 2, 2020 Andrew Dennehy

Does anybody find it shocking that the American people voted for a Republican president who then placed justices on our Supreme Court and yet the “so-called conservatives” have now declared that both homosexuals and transgenders are protected under the term “sex” in LBJ’s Civil Rights Act of 1964? The notion that six people can retroactively…

Letter: Christians and politics

July 2, 2020 Catherine White

We live in a time of acute political polarization, exacerbated every election cycle by a 24-hour barrage of candidate advertisements reflecting two opposing worldviews, a myriad of issues and advice on recommendations on ways to vote. Unfortunately, the toxic tone and extremely partisan nature of our political system discourages many Christians – and citizen voters…

Letter: State Question 802 is a bad deal for Oklahoma – vote no

June 18, 2020 Katy Jones

State Question 802 will be on the Primary Ballot on June 30. If passed, it will amend the Oklahoma State Constitution. It will expand Medicaid to include able-bodied people between 18 and 65 whose annual income is 133% below the poverty line ($17,236 for a single adult and $35,535 for a family of 4 in…

Letter: Leftist revolution

June 18, 2020 Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

For years some on the left have been asking for a revolution to change America, supposedly for the best. They have been working hard to change America’s values, from what has been predominantly Christian values based on God’s morale laws. They have managed to turn great numbers of Americans against God, and His righteous commandments. …

Letter: Guessing harvests

June 18, 2020 Kayla Bergman

Planting and emergence progress for both corn and soybeans are currently ahead of the five-year average across the Midwest. But, still fresh in farmers’ minds is the 2019 planting season, which was severely delayed due to record-breaking precipitation that led to flooded fields and excess soil moisture. According to USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS),…

Letter: Riots and presidential politics

June 18, 2020 Joseph G. Glenn

Every four years we have a presidential election. We have a Republican President Trump, therefore it is a year to start riots. We need to look at the history of riots and how they started. This year, a police officer in Minnesota mistreated a black man he had arrested. This officer is now under arrest…

Letter: It’s time for the USA to follow God

June 18, 2020 Manuel Ybarra, Jr.

Letter: Public schools have abandoned key Christian principles

June 11, 2020 Mrs. Stephanie Holler

I write to you specifically as a Christian publication about education in our state and a Christian solution to the decline of morals and excellence in the schools. I do not believe that the state will succeed in either of these pursuits by throwing money at the problem, even though I may be in the…