Letters to the editor at C-Ville Weekly, where the Goode controversy started

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Letters to the editor at C-Ville Weekly, Issue #18.52 :: 12/26/2006 - 01/01/2007
This is the newspaper where the Goode controversy started.

http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=141404064423910&ShowArticle_ID=11042212063517948

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Charlottesville VA 22902
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[underpants]

1. ' This might sound delusional...' Richmond paper with some LOLers

Editor, Times-Dispatch: Although I have nothing personal against good Muslims since this is a free country -- Congressman Virgil Goode is obviously a good patriot and a believer in the United States' traditional values, and he sees elected Muslims as a threat to America. My hat is off to him!

This country was founded on Christian traditions and beliefs, not Islamic ones. Currently, about 87 percent of the population is Christian. If Muslim elected officials keep getting elected and insist on being sworn in on the Quran instead of the Bible, this tells me that those elected Muslim officials don't believe in the Christian traditions that made this country free in the first place.

It is an American honor and a privilege for any elected official to be sworn in on the Bible, and this tradition should never be considered an option. In the worst-case scenario: If more devout Muslims get elected and get sworn in on the Quran, would America have to start reverting to the teachings and philosophies of the Quran? This might sound delusional, but Goode has taken the right first step in keeping such a nightmare from becoming a possible reality. Gary Allen. colonial heights.



Editor, Times-Dispatch: Praise be to Congressman Virgil Goode for upholding the United States -- one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We are a melting pot of legal immigrants joined in one nation by taking the oath of allegiance to our Constitution. We receive justice under American law.

Whether we worship in mosques, synagogues, churches, or not at all, we follow American law and take oaths in the English language upon the Bible of the Founding Fathers. To do less in the name of false diversity would dissolve our one nation.

No to Islamic Shariah law. Yes to mosques and religious freedom. No to illegal immigration. Yes to a measured flow of foreign peoples seeking to become Americans in language, customs, and law. Jane Hogan. keysville.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935005&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192407878&path=%21editorials%21letters

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Colonial Heights

A sister-in-law grew up there. She would not be surprised to see that the author of the first letter lives in Colonial Heights.

[VaYallaDawg]

4. I saw those abominations, Underpants.

Scary, isn't it - we stand in line at the grocery store with some of those very same people. Just when we think Va has taken a big step forward --- well, there's lots of room for re-education I think.

I drove back from Roanoke this afternoon up rt 460 - Goode signs out in peoples' yards - notably in Prince Edward County!! And it's now two months after the election. I wonder if they're just trying to re-assert their old fears and prejudices.

[underpants]

5. JIM IS IN!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2682548&mesg_id=2682548

[LetsThink]

3. Excuse me while I barf in a bag........