Oregon’s Measure 9
Baker, minister-at-large, writes that it’s a “matter of sin and acceptance” whether one group of taxpaying, law-abiding citizens should be allowed the same rights as other taxpaying, law-abiding citizens. Baker and the supporters of Oregon’s Measure 9 propose to take away citizens’ civil rights and use passages in their version of the Bible as justification. Surely the separation of church and state, as explained in their 9th-grade civics classes, should have made it clear that we draw our civil rights from the Constitution, not the Bible.
That Baker and his like-minded constituents would think otherwise would seem to indicate that concepts such as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and “securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity” don’t seem to mean much in Oregon.
JAMES F. FOSTER
Long Beach
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