“… one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.”

Our children say those words – with our consent – nearly daily, as we did when we were younger. Think of it: “under God.” I wonder how pleased God is that we continue to pollute our environment and how happy he is that George Bush saw fit, in his position as America’s No. 1 Christian, to roll back mercury emissions regulations, guaranteeing an increased number of health problems and birth defects.

How pleased is God that we see fit to condemn a group of people who he made to have a different sexual orientation? How pleased is he that we have killed or otherwise harmed thousands of Iraqi people based on a lie? What truly moral people will condone those actions?

While some readers seem to have focused on Rex Rhoades’ use of “mullahs” and “jihadists” as if those words were pointed straight at them, I saw Rhoades’ column (Nov. 7) as an indictment of a man who calls himself the keeper of morality, the crusader.

I applaud Rex Rhoades’ pointing out with ample evidence that the man who claims to be most moral among us must back up his claims with action beyond that which deals with a certain part of the body. So far, there has been lots of lip service and little action.

Expedience dressed in a cloak of morality is still expedience.

Pat Foster, Dixfield

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