Asking for God’s Help With the High Court
Re “Appealing to a Higher Power,” Commentary, July 17:
I’m way ahead of Pat Robertson -- I’ve been praying for over a decade for three justices to leave the court. Their names are William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. I’ve also been praying that Robertson would wake up some day and realize how immoral it is to fleece the gullible in the name of God.
So far, neither prayer has been answered. But by all means, Robertson should pray for anything his little heart desires.
Perhaps if his prayer is not answered he will conclude that God endorses the separation of church and state. While he’s at it, Robertson might want to reflect on the fact that the founder of his religion was crucified by heterosexuals. They also seem to have started most of the wars that have afflicted humanity over the centuries. Personally, I think it’s just coincidence; but Robertson seems to believe sexuality and history are deeply intertwined.
Kurt Weldon
Winnetka
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As a somewhat moderate Republican, here is my prayer in response to Robertson’s request for one: Dear God, please ask Mr. Robertson to leave me alone. Have him mind his own business. Make sure that he keeps his nose and imagination out of my affairs. And please, Lord, ask him to get his narrow-minded, exclusionary “religion” out of my face. Amen.
Thomas Michael Kelley
Newbury Park
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I find few arguments more obscene than Robertson invoking Thomas Jefferson (twice) to support his attacks on recent Supreme Court decisions. Anyone who has ever read Jefferson knows he called for “a wall of separation between church and state” and would surely abhor Robertson’s political goals and tactics.
Tom Chambers
Newport Beach
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Hey, Pat, consider this. God may already have intervened in enforcing the separation of church and state (as vigorously supported by the “frustrated” Jefferson you quote), as well as in the court’s refusal to allow the narrow religious and moral beliefs of some to compel others to abandon their own.
In short, Pat, consider this. You may be wrong, in secular eyes as well as God’s.
Bruce Goren
Los Angeles
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The Times is to be commended for printing Osama bin Robertson’s commentary.
Michael D. Mauer
Los Angeles
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I do not expect to open to the editorial section and read religious drivel. Have you no standards for acceptable topics?
Eileen Walker
Victorville