I have grown used to the tilt of the letters published in this space, but I must still register my shock and disappointment at the open anti-Catholic bigotry, reminiscent of the Know Nothings of the 1850s, or of the KKK in Oregon in the 1920s, which appeared on this page over the signature of one Michael Cortney in The Columbian’s July 1 edition (“Court confirms archaic ideas,” Our Readers’ Views).
While Mr. Cortney has a right to his bigoted views, I have the right to call them just that, and to urge people of good will to reject them utterly. In returning control of laws concerning abortion to the states, the court was reading the Constitution as written, rejecting the manufacture out of whole cloth of supposed rights found nowhere among the powers of the federal government specified in that document. We should all read and reflect on the 10th Amendment.
Now comes another letter, this time from one Mike Teefy. After rehearsing a parade of alleged horribles, concluding with the ridiculous opinion that the Dobbs decision has made pregnant women “illegal,” he displays his own anti-Catholic bigotry in attributing the decision to following some “papal dictate.” This is disgusting, but alas, not surprising.
