Openness to healing rooted in tolerance
I am writing in response to the letter °®¶¹appœIt°®¶¹app™s morning in America after years of oppression°®¶¹app (Dec. 3).
I can°®¶¹app™t agree with the writer more, except to say that I agree from a totally different point of view.
Now, I believe, is the time that the dark cloud is covering us. We are now chained in intolerance, greed and cancel culture of a different kind ... and we will be bullied. We will now be threatened °®¶¹appœwith the power of the federal government°®¶¹app where all three branches will be, in effect, run by one person. And we will be called terrorists for objecting.
The author contends that now °®¶¹appœlove of God and country will be celebrated,°®¶¹app as if these ideas disappeared for four years. What the author fails to see is that we are all people with many of the same hopes and beliefs. Regardless of what we call ourselves, we are not ideas to be feared.
Until we can learn to tolerate one another and look past differences for the good of our country°®¶¹app™s future, we are not open to God°®¶¹app™s healing.
Patty Ritter
Fort Wayne
Priorities neglected
I°®¶¹app™m outraged at the slim pickings in Fort Wayne to treat disorders and addictions for youth and women. Let°®¶¹app™s get another fast food restaurant and luxury apartments, though. Why don°®¶¹app™t officials try to attract what°®¶¹app™s really desperately needed for people°®¶¹app™s well-being?
Anna Dekan
Woodburn
Deeply disappointed by Biden°®¶¹app™s pardon
President Joe Biden°®¶¹app™s official pardon of his son Hunter has sent shock waves through the rule of law and ordered liberty community. The bottom line of his action is a confirmation of an age-old, cynical political lesson: It°®¶¹app™s not who you are but whom you know that°®¶¹app™s most important.
This single stroke of his presidential pen has resulted in the ironic joining of the Biden and Trump families at the hip; they now both exhibit the condition of °®¶¹appœjustice interruptus,°®¶¹app to borrow the term (though not the same meaning) from philosopher Nancy Fraser.
As I see it, the fascistic MAGA movement°®¶¹app™s primary motive for pursuing dismissal of cases against Donald Trump is power (although the Justice Department°®¶¹app™s motives for so doing are honorable). Biden°®¶¹app™s primary motive for dismissal of cases against Hunter appears to be, simply, love for his son. As disappointed as I am by his breaking of his word to the American people not to pardon him, I, as a father myself, cannot fault him for his love.
That said, both cases of °®¶¹appœjustice interruptus°®¶¹app have, in my view, gravely wounded our republican democracy. I pray that these wounds will not prove fatal.
George P. Foster
Fort Wayne
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