Michael Ryan Blunders over History

Re: "Pray this ruling is struck down," from the April 24th edition of the Augusta Chronicle.

Michael Ryan is whining about the supposed oppression of religion again. He complains about a court ruling that a national day of prayer is unconstitutional, despite the clearly worded passage of the first amendment--"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof..."

Having a national day of prayer obviously conflicts with the first amendment. It requires a law promoting a generic religion. It's not necessary to have a national day of prayer to pray. No one's stopping him. Go ahead and pray, Mr. Ryan.

Anyway, I thought Mr. Ryan was against government intrusion into our personal lives. Prayer is something that should be highly personal. How can he be in favor of the government calling for everyone to pray?

His big blunder over history is from the third to last paragraph when he states, "The people who formed this nation called for a national day of prayer back in 1775. Did they, too, act "unconstitutionally"?

The constitution wasn't adopted until 1787. Oops!

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Re: "Two big nuisances," from the April 22nd edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Here, Mr. Ryan takes the side of the NIMBY Nazis who are campaigning against a charity and are harrassing people with different lifestyles that they disapprove of.

I'm just glad I don't have people like Lori Davis and Butch Palmer as neighbors.

If they don't like their neighborhood and the other people in it, why don't they move.

It seems to me they're messing their britches because they see other people having a good time and they can't stand it. I think they're a couple of religious nuts who see African-Americans having a party instead of slaving in the fields, and they think it's armageddon.

The controversy they're drumming up is totally based on racism.

I'd take drug dealers as neighbors over racist, nasty old white people any day.

In fact, when I used to work in that neighborhood for the Augusta Chronicle circulation department, I found those old white people that live in Harrisburg to be, by far, the nastiest people in all of Augusta (and this isn't a particularly friendly town compared to others I've lived in). They're a bunch of good ole boy, bad tempered, rednecks.

I hope Lori Davis and Butch Palmer lose every battle they start.