John Ashcroft
* Thank you for that sobering and incisive assessment of John Ashcroft’s nomination for attorney general (“The Conscience of a Pentecostal,” by Martin E. Marty, Opinion, Jan. 28). I too am an evangelical Christian committed to scriptural truths and commands.
Thus I find it breathtakingly appalling that Ashcroft is so power-hungry he would willingly subscribe to enforcing laws he declares he finds totally unscriptural and abhorrent. Either this means he is intending to change or subvert those laws--or has no moral convictions whatever. Compared with a giant like Janet Reno, flawed, but a solid rock of integrity, Ashcroft’s so-called “preferences” seem like a slippery slope of rapidly melting Jello.
BONNIE COMPTON HANSON
Santa Ana
* I must protest Conrad’s cartoon (Commentary, Jan 29). While I hold no brief for either the Klan or the Christian Right (or even Ashcroft, for that matter), Conrad’s cartoon equating the two is totally repugnant.
Shame on you.
BILL HENNEBERG
El Segundo
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