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In Sue Nimms’ letter explaining conservatism she states, “we think we should have people in our government who don’t lie to us.”
If this were true, it begs the question, why in God’s name would Republicans vote the Trump administration into office?
Eric Garrett
Kailua-Kona
Assessing the risks
Sharks are an acceptable hazard. Box jelly fish are an acceptable hazard. Sea urchins, coral reefs, high seas – all acceptable, even sunburn!
Fecal matter, not so much.
Mark Proctor
Burnaby, B.C. and frequent visitor
and diver
Nimms was spot on
Thank you, Sue Nimms, for your excellent explanation of the conservative philosophy. We are a lonely voice in a sea of vocal and biased liberalism. Be prepared for a violent backlash.
The media overly supports the pitiful cries, vicious retorts and hateful meanderings of the far left by a magnitude of 10 to 1.
I give credit to West Hawaii Today for printing your point of view – maybe a first? Your points were not spiteful but well intentioned.
Hopefully, the liberal response will be just as reasonable.
Lynn Sebek
Waimea
Christian nation?
Not so fast
I have stewed for several hours now about the word salad served up by Sue Nimms (My Turn, June 13) and its remarkable smorgasbord of unsubstantiated statistics, allegations and accusations.
In the second paragraph of her response to the opinion piece by Barry Blum, previously published in West Hawaii Today, Ms. Nimms describes conservative belief in “preserving the Constitution.” Leave aside how insulting it is to imply that liberals do not share that respect for the document and high principles on which our government is founded: Later on she flatly states conservatives “believe this is a Christian nation.”
In 1802 Thomas Jefferson wrote of his belief “that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God … I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
In other words, Ms. Nimms, the Constitution which you profess to revere says you cannot have it both ways. If you want to live in a Christian nation, you need to get rid of that pesky First Amendment, a vibrant and living part of what you rightly described as “the supreme law of the United States of America.”
Alan Silverman
Kailua-Kona
