Opinion: Thanks to anti-abortion hardliners, we may end up with Sen. Roy Moore

To the editor: The single-issue voters pledging their support to Roy Moore, the Alabama GOP Senate nominee accused of sexual contact with a minor teenager, frustrate me. (“For Republicans in upscale Alabama suburbs, Roy Moore presents a conundrum,” Nov. 17)

To say that your biggest concern is “voting for a person who believes in abortion” is not only misguided, it also forces Republicans to vote for evangelical Christians when those candidates’ policies may be damaging to them.

No one on the left is really pro-abortion. They just want to allow women to make their own choice as supported by the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Paul Burns, Granada Hills

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To the editor: In response to Ellen Tipton’s personal dilemma, wherein she is torn between “voting for a pedophile and voting for a person who believes in abortion,” I have a better way for her to understand the graveness of this situation that should put her mind at ease.

Think of it this way: She is torn between voting for someone who abides by the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution, or for someone who does not follow those American institutions of law and order.

People who are true Americans ought to have their answer now. Values are not always what one’s religion tells that person to follow; rather, they are the fabric that unites this nation as one for the greater good.

Brett Kiesel, Altadena

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