Politics should not come from pulpit
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Editor,
While I applaud Mr. Werner’s informational letter about the discrepancy between the theatrical political front and the actual political action in Daines legislative performance, I fear this week we will read numerous letters supporting the Daines image by his supporters.
I anticipate page 43 of the playbook will be used to provide unspecific details to substantiate claimed positions, then use page 107 tactics to divert attention by attacking his new female opponent, Amanda Curtis, with few facts but as many injurious innuendoes as they can muster.
For my part I wish Daines was going to be active for all Montanans but his history, his campaign tactics and his party’s recent history seems to be evidence he will be trying to do more for “his” kind of people at others expense. My vote will go to someone of bigger character, whose purpose is to move our nation forward in the values that make this a country that works for all levels within our society. This includes a tolerance for those who believe in a God but not necessarily as outlined in one version of a book. Christianity has many versions at work in our country today, and as it was in our past, it remains a dominant but not absolute form of free religious belief. Politics should not come from the pulpit as it does and has elsewhere and in the past.
The inability to separate how one chooses to live their life and how one votes to select a person to make our country whole makes that person no different than some we see in overseas news reports in my mind. A major reason our forefathers sought to instill freedom for all of us rather than just those held similar religious values is because they were breaking away from that type of governmental control. That concept was as valid then as it is today.
Richard Bell
Polson
