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March 10, 2010

Your View: Hooray for opinons, whatever they may be

Lee Nordgren, Mankato

I love to read the editorial pages of our Mankato Free Press, like Sunday’s.

Wayne Comstock, whose father was one terrific fellow, grumbled about liberals wanting to be kind to others, who perhaps weren’t as fortunate as Comstock, as in health care.

Many other industrialized nations have successfully provided health care for all their citizens for about half what we spend. True, it will wreak havoc on the health-care insurance industry, but it will keep millions of Americans in their homes and give them better health care and peace of mind.  Sort of like what Jesus is credited with saying, “ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Then Tom Maertens — that sly, bright rascal — most conservatives didn’t even realize he was putting them down about their being cruel to those who didn’t go along with them.

Then there was Troy Schoenberger, laying it out there. The pope said to Galileo, either take back your statement that the Earth is not the center of the universe or we’ll kill you. Galileo decided to go with the pope, so they kindly let/made him stay in his home until death.

Religion gives lots of people comfort. For others, dire consequences for disagreeing with them.

Confucius said, “Don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.” That also works if one is bright enough to figure it out.

Viva la editorial pages. I enjoy bright, honest and fair writers like Leonard Pitts. I also tolerate, for freedom of expression, lying bigots who profess Christianity but don’t live it, like Cal Thomas.

 

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