In his recent column, Steve Chapman deliberately twists information in his attempt to destroy the creditability of Rick Santorum. Chapman said in his opening statement he knew why Rick Santorum was running for president. He was running, Chapman said “Because America is in trouble and he knows why. Faith and family are under attack.”
Then Chapman writes that it is not so and that “a mass of evidence…amounts to a thunderous refutation” that faith and family are not under attack. Chapman wants us to believe him when he writes “Does gay marriage undermine the health and stability of heterosexual marriages? Not so you can tell.” The very fact that he makes such a statement reveals his own blindness to the truth of attack on faith and family.
His very facts of some of the statistics, up or down, are evidence of the failure of our culture in the areas of faith and family. We are a nation in deep trouble. Families are struggling with the issues of drugs, gangs, rape, and robbery on a continuing escalating scale of violence. We continue to hire more police and write more laws and build more and more jails and prisons to try and curb the crime and protect the citizens.
Then Chapman has the audacity to close his commentary with this sentence: “American culture is not sick, and Santorum is no healer.” American culture is indeed sick and is in a freefall fueled, in part, by the liberal thinkers who continue to rail against the faith community and the values which govern their lives. Chapman may or may not have included the title given his article, “Rick Santorum’s moral delusions” but I take issue with it as well as the content of his commentary.
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Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
Don Taylor
Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church
Pine Bluff.