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for the most innocent of all human beings. are accurately portraying the populace.
Ms. Strong quoted the “golden rule.” I Maybe you don’t intend to. It might be
ONLINE STORIES
have to wonder what a fetus did to deserve better just to create an article, co-written
death. If there is any shame to be passed by Tim Baldwin and Joe Carbonari that
around, it clearly has to be on the people states the same thing. Maybe it is diicult
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who practice unprotected sex. Not only for you to ind a writer in your staf who
PROSECUTE ALL FAMILIES does this put them in danger of getting all can intelligently articulate a philosophical
VANDALISM AS A HATE CRIME
kinds of diseases, it also places a potential position that counters what the mass media
Montana’s hate crime law is on the person in danger of being aborted. If Ms. is disseminating – quite Orwellianly.
books to protect Montanans against Whiteish Strong is so “embarrassed to live in” this Though (to give you some slack) the
crimes motivated by “race, creed, religion, Legislative Candidate
Has Restraining Order area, move to some place that happily more plausible reason might be that both
color, national origin, or involvement in welcomes the abortion of innocent fetuses. you and your staf are afraid to publish an
civil rights or human rights activities.”
Against Him
I hear California is a nice place.
article that states openly what people are
People are free to hate. They are Francis Johnson thinking, but also are not willing to state
free to espouse whatever religious views Prosecutors Kalispell
openly, for concern of a backlash of media
they wish. But when they kill, threaten or Recommend Life in that is so sheepishly following what is en
vandalize in order to intimidate people Prison for Jordan SENSELESS VIOLENCE CANNOT vogue, at least as far as the propaganda says.
they don’t like, or whose religion they BE ACCEPTED
disagree with, that crosses a line.
Graham
I feel the need to write and express It will not always be en vogue. There are
still a number of people who remain silent
We of the Flathead Valley should SnowGhost’s Sonic my horror at the recent destruction and while the parade marches by. No amount
recognize the attack against All Families Appeal
vandalism at All Families Healthcare. of propaganda, media-intimidation, or
Healthcare for what it is: an assault against This kind of senseless violence cannot be Babylonian-iery-furnace tactics will
our community, the rule of law, and Bigfork Fans accepted in our community. Susan Cahill change the people’s conscience with
fundamental rights all of us hold dear. This has been a strong and caring advocate for this regard. They will still maintain the
is no mere vandalism, or some prankster Finally Get Their women’s health. She is the least judgmental freedom to love ALL people, along with the
kid with spray paint. It’s not a burglar Championship
and most caring person I’ve ever met and
inalienable right to freedom of conscience.
eager to empty a safe. To call it “criminal Old School Revival
the respect she has for her patients is Within this right they believe that certain
mischief” is ridiculous. It’s much more second to none. She provides the kind of behaviors are unhealthy because they are
sinister.
Harmonizing the health care that we wish all doctors would a violation of design. They unwaveringly
It was an attack on the reproductive Flathead Valley
give. She listens, never rushes through airm that Jesus brings freedom for every
rights of all women, no matter how they appointments, and give her clients the sin. And they do so, without justiiably
choose to express that right. It was an Southern Charm in assurance that they are being heard.
being called “phobic,” “bigot,” or “hateful.”
attack on the privacy rights of everyone For someone to terrorize Susan in Brian Martin
who ever has seen a doctor, as the vandal Whiteish
such a horriic and personal way should
Kalispell
pillaged patient records. It was a personal On the Lookout
give us all something to think about. Is
attack, as evidenced by the savage this how we want our town to be seen? As a BURDENS OF OBAMACARE
destruction of family photos.
State Legislative place where we allow people to be harassed We have been told, “If you like your
All of this occured three blocks from Candidate Field Takes and tormented for only doing their jobs? health care coverage you can keep your
the police station. The perpetrator clearly As a community who allows this kind of coverage. Your doctor? Don’t worry, he
did not care about getting caught. He was Shape
persecution? As a place where extreme or she won’t go anywhere.” There are
trying to make a point.
factions are above the law and given free hundreds of thousands of people across
There is no place for this kind of Park Service rein to intimidate and terrorize?
the country who now know this is no longer
Accepting Bids to
action in a civilized community. Now is the Operate Historic I hope that All Families Health will the case. The promises we were sold when
time to step up in support of Susan Cahill reopen because there are so many people President Barack Obama campaigned on
and all others who bravely do sometimes Chalets in Glacier
who will lose their health care provider. changing healthcare for the American
unpopular, but necessary, work. The But I certainly will understand if Susan people are nothing more than a gross
perpetrator of this crime should be decides that she can no longer live with distortion.
prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If fearfulness and distress.
Massive delays have been experienced
the state won’t do it, the feds should step in.
What a sad day for our valley. What a in a system that was known to be lawed
LETTERS
Ben Long Tell us what you think. To submit a letter, please e-mail your submission
sad day for each and every one of us. Is this before the date of implementation.
Kalispell
to [email protected]. Please kind of intolerance who we have become? Special interest groups were exempted by
keep your letter to 300 words or less. And remember this. The next time it might executive order.
The Flathead Beacon reserves the right RELIGION NOT TO BLAME
be YOU who they disagree with. It might be Rather than increased access to
Here we go again. Religion being to edit letters for length, clarity and
YOU who is bullied and victimized. If you quality and afordable care, we’ve been
blamed for something it had nothing to do to prevent libel. Letters must include think it can’t happen to you, think again.
handed cancellation notices and increased
with. First Dr. Cahill on TV news blamed the writer’s irst and last name, phone Marianne Lowitz premiums. These mandated health care
a “religious terrorist” for destroying number and address for veriication Kalispell
costs are making it harder for working
purposes. Only the name and hometown
her clinic, then Ms. Strong in a letter to of the writer will be printed. To mail a families to put food on the table, put gas in
the Flathead Beacon, even after it was letter, please send to 17 Main Street, A COUNTERPOINT TO GAY their car, or send their kids to college. All of
proven the person who broke in and did Kalispell, MT 59901.
MARRIAGE
the things we want for our children and the
the damage was not religious. I especially Fax letters to (406) 257-9231.
I read the article in your recent paper next generation are sufering because our
enjoy the way non-religious people love “Gay Marriage and the GOP.” I am not a month-to-month income is getting smaller
to quote Bible verses when they clearly CORRECTIONS
Republican, but I guess I don’t understand and smaller as these mandated health care
don’t have a clue the context of those If a Beacon story includes a factual the point of having a point/counterpoint costs are getting bigger and bigger.
error, please tell us about it. Call
verses. It’s all about an attempt to control Kellyn Brown at 257-9220; or e-mail to if both sides are basically saying the same The burdens on working class families
“religious” people by using their Holy [email protected]; or fax to thing – that there is essentially no one are too much right now, and the vision
Book. Christians do no harm. If anyone 257-9231.
left in the political arena who opposes needs to change. For Montana, that vision
claims to be a Christian and does harm, FLATHEADBEACON.COM
gay “marriage,” or if there is any, then is relected in everything Steve Daines
they are a liar.
For daily news, local community pages, there shouldn’t be. That is, unless you is ighting for. Let’s help Daines help lift
The people who are out praying in video, multimedia, story archives and are merely trying to state the same point these burdens from working families in
front of that clinic are simply doing that. lively online conversation, visit our Web twice for emphasis. The implication is Montana and all across the country by
Praying for the unborn who are about to site at latheadbeacon.com.
that there is no one left in society that sending him to the Senate.

have their lives ripped away from them. objects to the legal agenda, or maybe even Chuck Jarecki
This is not a war on women, it’s standing up
the lifestyle itself. It doesn’t seem like you
Polson