Country needs attitude adjustment

As I watched the news this evening, I saw where our Supreme Court ruled that a person under the age of 18 cannot receive the death penalty. On the same newscast it was reported that a 16-year-old boarded a school bus in Tennessee, pulled out a gun and killed the bus driver with a shot to the head. This killer will now have no chance of receiving the death penalty. This ruling has extensive ramifications.

It seems that ever since Clinton appointed former head ACLU attorney Ruth Ginsberg to the court that decisions have been ever so ridiculous. Ginsberg and her band of five have taken over the Supreme Court resulting in some very unsettling decisions. They have given us sodomy and abortion, put gays in the Boy Scouts while taking the "Christmas Vacations" out of our schools. Now they are concerned about the public display of the Ten Commandments. Perhaps they should take a minute and read them instead of attempting to remove them.

We have a war on terror, illegal immigrants pouring into our country, a Marine soldier who is being tried for murder because he killed a couple of Iraqi militants, and the court is concerned with the display of the Ten Commandments in public. We need a change in attitude in our country and if it doesn't come soon, I am serious when I tell you we are going to lose it for good.

Lawrence Pirkle, Mount Vernon

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