VALUE JUDGMENTS

However much Blakely’s divorce might have helped her and her husband, it might look different from her children’s point of view. Divorce is always hell for the children.

As for her lip service to tolerance for groups that suit her political palate, she came up surprisingly short on tolerance for those who have the gall to actually believe in God. If she read the Constitution, she’d make the shocking discovery that the very idea of the free exercise of religion is recognized by government.

LARRY A. CARSTENS

Los Angeles