(Letter to the Editor - Graphic Illustration/MetroCreativeConnection)

This is my final letter concerning the op-ed titled “Promoting the General Welfare,” in the Sunday, Nov. 20, newspaper.

In her op-ed, the author writes more people should read the preamble. I agree, especially the part, where all men are “endowed by their creator.” Who is the creator? It is, of course, Almighty God. It is difficult to believe today, there are those who claim our founding fathers did not establish a Christian nation or that the U.S. was never a Christian nation. And that is the revision history they seek to teach our kids.

More people should read (and study) our First Amendment, which reads, in part, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

What part of “prohibiting the free exercise thereof” do liberal Democrats not understand? They choose to ignore that part because it doesn’t allow the federal government the authority to ban prayer and religion is promoted. The federal government has long overstepped its authority concerning religion.

Therefore, the individual state is free, with their boards of education and the parents’ consent, to set their children’s curriculum, including teaching religion in their schools, on a voluntary, not mandatory, basis, without any federal interference. Also, let’s teach children the true meaning of Christmas, not just about Santa Claus.

Children mature enough to decide on their own sex. They should be mature enough to hear about God.

The First Amendment was written, in part, to protect religion from the government, not the government from religion. The federal government does the first well, but not the second part.

The federal government protects the freedom of religion. Atheists twist this part of the First Amendment to push their Godless agenda and deprive people of faith and their religious freedoms.

The federal government protects freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Some environmental extremists today claim they do not believe in God. Sadly, their idea of God is the earth, itself, which they worship. These extremists put no value on human life and would sacrifice millions to starvation, illness, freezing (in winter), sweltering (in summer), for the so-called good of the planet. These are the people the Bible warns us of, who worship creation, not the creator.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg