Question for Ky. clerk supporters
I have a question for those who insist Kim Davis, the Rowan, Ky., county clerk, should be allowed to dictate that no marriage licenses be issued to same-sex couples because doing so violates her religious beliefs. What if the elected official were a Buddhist who refused to allow gun licenses in the county because killing violates his religious beliefs?
RALPH ROUGHTON, ATLANTA
DeKalb officials should do better
As a DeKalb County taxpayer the past 28 years, I feel maybe it is time we start demanding more from our so-called leaders. We will start with Dr. Cedric Alexander and his DeKalb police. Alexander, I know we are not perfect, but for God’s sake, who is training these officers? Do they teach you to enter a house just because the back door is unlocked? To shoot the family pet? To shoot the unarmed homeowner and, for good measure, shoot one of the officers that came in the door with you? Instead of citizens seeing you on TV in Ferguson, Baltimore or New York, it might be good to stay in DeKalb and stop some of this runaway crime. Taxpayers are starting to wonder if Mike Bowers may be on to something when he says DeKalb County is rotten to the core.
JOHN STALCUP, LITHONIA
Emissions require a market approach
Republican candidates should miss no opportunity to lambaste the current administration’s approach to reducing carbon emissions as executive overreach using failed liberal ideas of command and control. Instead of a regulatory approach, Republicans rely on a competitive market-based strategy. The Carbon Fee and Dividend plan by George P. Shultz, secretary of state under President Reagan, takes this approach. CFD is simple, easily administered and relies on the free market, not regulation. CFD levies a small, steadily increasing fee on carbon and rebates all proceeds to American citizens. The plan ends fossil fuels’ massive hidden subsidy by making them bear the true cost of the damage they cause.
BRAD ROUSE, HIAWASSEE
Southerners pray over everything
To critics of praying before a football game: You live in the South! We pray over food, sports events, sick people and crops. I remember when the governor prayed for rain during the drought. Praying is multigenerational. There is no racial line. If anything, it brings us closer, knowing that something greater than ourselves is in charge. If you don’t want to pray, no one is going to criticize you or write about you in the newspaper. About the baptism on the football field, I know no one forced this person to be baptized. People are baptized anywhere, not just a church. Just try to respect what is deep in the hearts of Southerners.
STEPHANIE RUBY, MONROE
