County is bastion of traditional values, faith

Oh, the joy! We have so much to celebrate in North Idaho, made even more joyous by the refreshing and uplifting message of transported Iowan young Jason Benell in his Jan. 6 letter to the editor in the Bee.

In his letter, Jason reveals, evidently as a result of his very own lengthy investigation and experience, that “Every day people of other (than Christian) faiths or no faiths are marginalized in favor of Christian mythology.”

He points out, and we would not have otherwise known, that the substantial objections in letters to the editor to the running in the Bee of a far-left cartoon attacking Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church is “shamefully misplaced and shows just how blind the Christian majority is to their status in our society.”

The joy exists in the fact that even in Bonner County, a bastion of traditional American and Christian values, young Jason, who previously asserted that “the U.S. Constitution is the greatest barrier to progress in America;” who is unrepentantly socialist, and is impliedly atheistic, is yet happily ensconced here.

While he struggles mightily to overcome the societal handicaps he bears of being surrounded by believers in the Constitution, capitalism, and Christianity,our real celebration will be that few here might be inclined to reverse the prodigiously beneficial values he so detests.

TERRY LAMB

Sagle