Letter: The good ol’ days? Really?

Stephen Franklin White’s July 19 letter, “Opposition to casino easily justified,” pines after the day when “strong Christians” ran our country. A time when we massacred Native Americans, stole their land, rounded them up and herded them onto reservations like cattle. Our Founding Fathers, strong Christians all, went to church on Sundays and profited on slavery, maybe strung a few up when the slaves got too uppity.

Those were they days, weren’t they, Mr. White?

How about when women were just a part of Adam’s rib and were destined to be pregnant and submissive? Great times, Mr. White?

Perhaps we should go back even farther in our “strong Christian” time machine, to a day when the sun revolved around the Earth, scientists were imprisoned, and sinners were stoned in the streets.

White is concerned that the tiny Cowlitz Tribe might profit on “strong Christians'” weaknesses with a casino in La Center. Is White’s faith so weak?

White fears “liberal” anti-Constitutionalist immigrants want to ruin his vision for America with more economic success, justice for all, and more pesky regulations. God forbid.

Let’s hope and pray one of these “strong Christians” doesn’t get into office in “Clarkistan” and send us spiraling backward in time. Ooops.

Rich Stever

Vancouver