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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, June 29; 2006, Comments An open letter to Brittany McComb Dear Brittany: Like the rest of America, I know you as the courageous coura-geous Foothill High School valedictorian with the 4.7 GPA whose commencement speech mentioning God was cut short when school officials offi-cials turned off your microphone. micro-phone. You don't know me. I am an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and radio talk show host. I live in Seattle and head an organization called Toward Tradition which defends the Judeo-Christian values that I consider vital for our nation's survival. We applaud people like you who stand up for Judeo-Christian values and we denounce people like Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. Along with his organization, or-ganization, he tries to strip out Judeo Christian values from America, presumably because he considers them to be primitive obstacles to progress. Mr. Lichtenstein encouraged encour-aged the school officials to censor you because your speech 'promoted religion'. It is really weird. My Jewish ancestors stood at the foot of Mount Sinai three thousand thou-sand years ago doing exactly ex-actly what you are accused of doing-promoting religion. It used to be considered a good thing for Jews to do. Nowadays we must mostly count on fervent Christians like you to promote religion. May God bless you. You should be proud to have been viewed as such a menace that primitive censoring cen-soring tactics were resorted to by educational bureaucrats. bureau-crats. You should also be proud that you conducted yourself with such dignity that hundreds of your fellow graduates and their families jeered long and loud at the petty tyranny of the school Springville Herald 269 E. 400 South Springville, UT 84663 An edition of The Daily Herald a Lee Enterprises, Inc. 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The last time my microphone micro-phone went dead, it was not deliberate. It as just a technical tech-nical hitch, but it was pretty unpleasant. Last February I was speaking to a packed Altel Arena in downtown Little Rock, with Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee. The microphone was out only for a few moments but it was most disconcerting. I can only imagine what you felt when you realized what had happened to you. I am sure it wasn't fun but I am equally sure that you will look back on that moment as one of the most educational educa-tional instants of all the years you spent at Foothill High School. Why do I say your microphone mi-crophone going dead was a great educational instant? Because it taught you that the single most important sculptor of people's world views is how they relate to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If they recoil in horror from the God of the Bible, they become capable ca-pable of the very acts they condemn in others-such as censorship. Having eliminated elimi-nated the ultimate source of morality, they set about dismantling Judeo-Christian values, aiming to convert every vice into a virtue and every virtue into a vice. Maybe you ought to thank school officials for pulling the plug on your sound system. sys-tem. In so doing, they taught you and everyone else that their world view is a belief system just as surely as is yours. Yours is the Biblical faith of Christianity. Mine is the Biblical faith of Judaism. Theirs is the anti-Biblical faith of secular fundamentalism. fundamen-talism. Mentioning God nine times in your speech was heresy to them. We must admit that in an only-to-be -admired emulation of medieval medi-eval fundamentalism, they knew they had to shut you up. When it was pointed out that the set of regulations that Clark County School FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALER & SERVICE CENTER We offer service and tune-ups on most lawnmowers or small engine yard tools! Get yours today! 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It does not separate sepa-rate blacks from whites; neither does it separate rich from poor or men from women. It certainly does not separate Jews from Christians. It does, however, separate those who view Ju-deo-Christian values as tribal trib-al vestiges that obstruct our march to Utopia from those of us who see those Judeo-Christian Judeo-Christian values as vital for America's survival. There are blacks and whites on both sides just as there are rich and poor on both sides. Of course there are Jews on both sides too. I am so pleased that you are on my side. With the many young Americans, both Jewish and Christian, who are deeply devoted to God's Biblical blueprint for society, Mr. Lichtenstein and the ACLU don't stand a chance of forcing forc-ing their beliefs down our throats. Good luck at Biola University Univer-sity next year and always remember why they turned of f your microphone. Sincerely Rabbi Daniel Lapin Say no to non-married partners Editor: Demonstrating that there is perhaps no proposal too outrageous for those trying to break down our borders and our traditional social order, I noticed H.R. 3006, which would amend the Immigration Im-migration and Nationality Act to allow U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents resi-dents to sponsor their "permanent "per-manent partners" for residence resi-dence in the United States. The act would change current immigration law language by inserting the phrase "or permanent partner" part-ner" after "spouse" each place where that term appears. ap-pears. H.R. 3006 has flown quietly qui-etly under the radar, gathering gath-ering 94 cosponsors in the House and 10 in the Senate. I found out about this from the June 2006 John Birch Society So-ciety Bulletin, at www.jbs. org. I suggest everyone contact con-tact their representative and senators now to oppose this stealth pathway to legal residency for non-married "partners." It is too much to let some of our congressmen congress-men give citizenship to alien homosexual partners. Matthew R. Davis Henderson, NV New Hope For Herniated Disc Patients UTAH COUNTY,- A new free report has recently been released that reveals FDA approved medical technology that has an 86 success rate for treating debilitating herniated disc pain without surgery. For your free report entitled, "How Space Age Technology Is Solving Back Pain Without Drugs Or Surgery!" call 1-888-671- 8601 and listen to the toll-free 24 details or go to: www.UtahDiscRelief.com I stand by the warinlraq decision! Editor: I believe the war in Iraq is a good thing. I totally back this war up and President Presi-dent Bush's decision. Do you remember how you felt on September 11, 2001? I remember re-member feeling scared and angry. I remember wanting want-ing something done. He did something and he did the right thing. If we did nothing, terrorists terror-ists would continue to attack at-tack this country. Our nation needed to step in here and President Bush stepped up right away and took action. That action was swift and deliberate. That action helps deter other oth-er terrorists from attacking and shows the rest of the world and future terrorists we will not allow. that to happen to our country. The President knew he must take action here or worse things were to come. Some people say that this war is pointless. I say that it shows that we are not going to take crap from anyone. The President and his decisions have made me proud to say that I am an American. I completely back up the President and his decision. Darrell Carson Mapleton Satan's hate - Editor: The hate-American "open borders" cabal emerged from the radicalism of the 1960s and matured in the fight over amnesty for illegal il-legal aliens in the 1980s. It gained mainstream status in the 1990s as the "globalization" "global-ization" and "multilateralism" "multilateral-ism" fads of the decade encouraged en-couraged talk of a "world without borders" and the decline or demise of the nation-state. At the center of the movement is the Ford Foundation, the largest tax-exempt foundation in the world, and one guided by the radical left new world order elite. The Ford Foundation embraces em-braces the New Left's assault as-sault on the American society. so-ciety. It has been revealed that the Ford Foundation has granted millions of tax-exempt dollars to terrorist ter-rorist support groups and other radical organizations in the Middle East. The Ford Foundation's funded open borders network is integrated with the traditional tradi-tional American radical left, including its factions from the old Communist movement. The concept of open borders bor-ders and the destruction of America has long been the agenda of the radical left. Since the 1960s, a vast network, including many organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots activists ac-tivists backed by hundreds Governor appoints new Labor Utah Governor Jon Huntsman announced Monday he has nominated Sherrie Hayashi to head the State's Labor Commission. Hayashi, upon confirmation confir-mation of the Utah State Senate, will succeed Lee Ellertson of Springville as Labor Commissioner upon his retirement in mid-July. She currently works as director di-rector of the Commission's Anti-Discrimination & La- Selling my home is not a do-it-yourself project. Use a REALTOR Utah County Association of REALTORS www.ucaor.com Hour recorded message for all the EDITORIAL "One nation, under God" In 1892 Francis Bellamy, a writer for a magazine, was asked by his editor to write a salute to the flag, with the purpose of having school children earn about our flag as a symbol of our national values, i Bellamy composed the Pledge of Allegiance, just 23 words, that were soon being repeated by school children across the nation. "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." One word was changed-"my Flag," to "the Hag." And words were added, "of the United States of America" and "under God." In a time when many are trying to omit God from America, we surely need to include Him more. We need Him. We cannot succeed without His guiding help. General Carlos P. Romuloe lived in America for many years and said as he left to go back to his home country: "I am going home. America-farewell. For 17 years I have enjoyed your hospitality, visited every one of your 50 states. I can say I know you well. I admire and love America. It is my second home. "What I have to say to you now in parting is both a tribute and a warning: Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know that you are a practical people, like others. "I have marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people, knowing that there is a spark of the Divine in each one of us. "It is this respect for the dignity of the human spirit which makes America invincible. May it always endure. "And so I say again in parting, thank you, America, and farewell. May God keep you always-and may you always keep God." And that is the important thing. May we never forget On July 4th, and every day, that we are "one nation, under un-der God." American open of millions of dollars from left wing foundations, has waged a sustained campaign cam-paign to open American's borders to mass migration from the Third World and the inundation of America. We are being overwhelmed over-whelmed by a tidal wave of illegal immigration. The campaign to radically radi-cally change American values and culture through mass immigration and the political mobilization of the alienated, presents a danger to the country that parallels the anti-American of the Islamic Jihad. The Demographic shifts caused by unregulated mass immigration immi-gration can have adverse impact on national stability that rival or surpass the effects ef-fects of war. Traditionals and patriots throughout our country watch in nearly impotent dismay as the godless glo-balist glo-balist elites destroy our heritage leaving us without with-out memory of our past and with little hope for our children's future. Our globlist elites subvert every ev-ery tradition and ethic that elevates men above beasts. In the United States of America an arrogant, godless, god-less, white elite champions globalization. At the same time it ignores the falling wage rates of many Americans, Amer-icans, the shrinking of the middle-class and the plight of much of the working class. A growing underclass under-class is one result. bor Division. "Sherrie has served the state well and has worked hard to ensure safety and fairness in the workplace for Utahns," Governor Huntsman said. "I am pleased she has accepted this challenge and look forward for-ward to her perspective in the cabinet." Hayashi has been employed em-ployed by the Labor Commission Com-mission off and on for 15 years, working in various departments including working as an associate general counsel, a systems analyst and an investigator. investiga-tor. "The Labor Commission 3g ARTISTIC BATH & KITCHEN REFINISHING INC 1-888-707-9297 www.artisticbathrefinishings.com Refinish Any 1Ub for $275 Refinish nib & Tile for $550 borders cabal Two of the most prominent promi-nent among the Ford Foundation Foun-dation funded hate-Americans, anti-Christian organizations, orga-nizations, and strategic players in the open borders network, are the American Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Lawyer's Guild, which began be-gan as a Soviet front and has continued its "revolutionary" "revolu-tionary" allegiances since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The moral deviant, woman wom-an killer and philanderer Senator Ted Kennedy is the leader of the hate-American hate-American open, borders cabal in Congress. There are few issues so important to the life of a nation as the integrity of its borders and the nature of its citizenship. These are issues that define de-fine its identity and shape its future. When a nation is under invasion, its ability abil-ity to regulate its borders is a security matter of survival. sur-vival. It is estimated that up to three million illegal aliens simply walked across the U.S. Mexican border last year, bringing in dangerous danger-ous diseases, drugs (90 percent of our drugs come from Mexico), gangs, a corrupt third World cul-, cul-, ture, terrorists and more. The destruction of Christian Chris-tian American by forces of evil is a to priority for Satan. Sa-tan. Art Larson Springville Commissioner does an excellent job of enforcing the law in a fair and impartial way, but another an-other important aspect is ensuring that both employees employ-ees and employers are educated edu-cated about their rights and responsibilities," Hayashi said. "I am honored the Governor has chosen me for this great post and I look forward to the challenges chal-lenges and opportunities it presents." Ellertson was appointed as commissioner in 1996. 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