Jim Freeland’s letter about presidential hopefuls is the opening round of dirty politics confronting Barack Obama. Freeland uses such phrases and words as "believed to be" to mask outright lies about a candidate with a strange name and dark skin. Freeland is planting seeds of rejection of a viable candidate among less-informed citizens. I heard the same urban myths while visiting in New Jersey recently. Evidence can be found on the Internet to refute these allegations.
It is no longer socially acceptable to reject people of color, but fear can be stirred with references to "Muslim radical" and "Koran."
Please! We will fall from within only if we succumb to lies and dirty tricks.
Billie Bourgeois
Mooresville
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As it happens, Barack Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. And what if he were a Muslim?
Although many Americans (including media commentators) seem to have forgotten this, being a Christian is NOT in fact a requirement for election to high office in the United States.
Article VI section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states:
"...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
I find the media's and the public's obsessive focus on probing the candidates' religious beliefs totally inappropriate. It is proper and necesary to inquire about the candidates' stands on matters of public policy.
But it is not the public's or reporters' legitimate business to inquire into whether or not a candidate has experienced spiritual salvation or to probe his or her personal religious beliefs.
To put any candidate for elective office through a religious test violates both the spirit and the letter of the United States Constitution. In other words: it's un-American.
I wish people would remember that and get back to the real issues. We're electing a president, not a pastor.
AR
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