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Needhams, you can expect the best price e\'eryday, we guarantee it! Redeem this ad for $2.00 toward any new purchase ai S.E, Needham Jewelers between 3/1/06 and 5/31/06. Limit one ad per persoD, per i&sae! See store for details. Sara Ryan's talk on mise, like politicians in 1820 Wednesday was so filled with and 1850, because their faith errors or nonsense (as were gave them a foundation of some of the quoted responses) rock not sand? that it requires a response. As Does she believe that someone who has ^ ^ ^ _ _ _ the Civil Rights engaged intelligent Movement is susRichgrd design for years, pect because it Sherlock I found her comwas led by black Professor • ministers, ment pervasively foreuniformed. Column most among whom was the Reverend I suggest that Dr, Martin Luther she study the matter closely from both sides King? Does she know that before she talks about it King became the leader after an intensely personal reliagain. More pointedly, she seems gious experience in which to hold that we should not he believed that he heard a use religion as a basis for "still small voice saying stand public policy in America, to up for justice, stand up for righteousness and I will be at which I respond: Is she aware that absolute your side forever?" Does she religious toleration was first know that at the seminal "I argued for by radical prot- Have a Dream" speech, King, estants like Baptists, more on his own testimony, says expansively than and a cen- that at the end he threw away tury before philosophers ever the prepared text and "spoke the words [he] was given?" took it up? Does she really mean that This is the part of the speech we should not honor, revere we remember. and teach the Declaration She is much too young of Independence because it to know about the protest plainly teaches that our rights against the Vietnam war, come from God? The found- which played a large role in ers thought that July 4, 1 776, my college years. But would was the founding aate of our she regard such a movement liberty, which was the day as suspect because of the when the Declaration was pervasive involvement of approved in Philadelphia. religious figures like Father Does she really believe Daniel Berrigan. that the anti-slavery moveFinally, would she regard ment is suspect because it opposition to capital punwas led by Christian minis- ishment as wrong if it was ters who would not compro- motivated by the fact that both the Vatican and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops oppose capital punishment in all cases? If a governor took a personal phone call from the Pope and then commuted a death sentence, would that be wrong? What Ms. Ryan asks of religious people in the public square is hypocrisy, a public stance that cannot be good for an open, free society. Religious citizens can support any view on public issues they want. They just cannot announce that their reason for doing so is their faith. But faith of any real sort cannot be taken off like a jacket whenever others demand it. So she seems to be asking of religious persons to either remain silent or adopt a two-faced attitude that their very faith forbids. In my experience, persons like Ms. Ryan are willing to grant my examples, but tney recoil when evangelical religion enters the public arena with an agenda that they find distasteful. But instead of contesting the message as they should do, they prefer to say that we should ignore the messenger. This view should be rejected on its face. Richard Sherlock is a professor of philosphy at Utah State University. Questions or comments can be sent to ruffie@cc.usu.edu. LETTERS • Monday - Friday The Diamond Engagement Ring Store...since ]896 9:30 - 8:00 Saturday 'til 6:00 141 North Main • 752-7149 www.seneedham.com j >t«ft «f tkl * j j » mj lit «JwJt. MEETING TONIGHT! S A T E L L I T E From page 17 viding students with information and making them aware of the many endeavors USU students in various departments and colleges are a part of. I am a busy student just like most here, and I don't have the time to research all the happenings on campus. I don't think I would even know that ASUSU existed without the articles from the Statesman. Keep it up! Marie Aitken • ETHICS From page 77 " y ; Therefore, it is the responsibility of media consumer, along with all media professionals, to understand the code at least a little bit and keep in mind what journalism is trying to accomplish, journalism does have ethics, and for the most part, they are very well kept. But mistakes can be made. Standards can conflict and choices must be made. When that happens, we can't simply write to the paper "screaming about their lack of ethics, for that is simply not true. Journalists do have ethics. 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