Government shouldn’t control personal beliefs
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Editor,
I appreciate Mr. Jore’s expressed views, however I would also appreciate clarity. If our freedoms do not come from the Constitution but from the God our founding forefathers acknowledged, can he please explain where the four times occur? During its birth many concepts were discussed by many great men, but with our Constitution we are presented with their unified concepts to help a nation of divergent people and beliefs live together and prosper. By choice the word God does not appear.
And I missed the part where he identified religion follows the constitution the way God wants us to. America has a vast array of Christian forms of worship to God and non-Christian forms that also worship God. Some believe violence towards others to protect their religious views is justified as their first duty is to God, not to the values of the country. My God is a more gentile God for I believe he does not want me to force my religious views on others through the government.
People like Mr. Jore and Mr. Daines who seek to outlaw the rights of individuals granted by the ideals in our Constitution say God demands it. I look to the Middle East and see what religious intolerance leads to at the extreme, not to mention the people killed in our own country by zealots who believe opposing views demand death. Attempting to use political power to control is only a lesser degree of the jihad mentality. I can and do oppose that at election time.
There is a room in our country for differing views and behavior as long as it does not infringe on others rights of behavior. When it only infringes on an idea and perhaps creates a personal uncomfortableness, it is not a serious enough infringement to deny a right to a belief.
Mr. Daines campaigns that he wants less government but his religious furor belittles that claim as he seeks to have the government control choices a woman makes. In Montana, its male-dominant conservative history says he will likely win; If so, without my vote.
Rich Bell
Polson
