I hope Yost isn’t successful
Re “Yost resigns as attorney general,” May 8: Attorney General Dave Yost moving on to work with the Alliance Defending Freedom sounds a lot like Christian Nationalism without using that actual term.
People are free to believe whatever they want to believe about current hot topic issues such as transgender rights, school vouchers and wedding industry decisions. They ought not be allowed to enforce those beliefs on the rest of society through legislation.
It is ironic how people yell “foul play!” when Christian leaders oppose war, goon-like raids on civilians and deplorable treatment of people detained in horrific detention centers, but then support politically elected officials wanting to impose their narrow-minded anti-this-and-that agenda on us through the government.
Church leaders are supposed to campaign for peace and equally fair treatment of all citizens.
Politicians are elected and appointed to serve ALL the people, not just those who pass some sort of select criteria to determine whose rights are legitimate and whose are dispensable.
Attacking transgender people, micromanaging women’s reproduction, taking money from public schools to fund private schools and deciding who people are allowed to love is taking us the wrong direction as a society.
I wish AG Yost well in his new position. I pray the policies of the Alliance Defending Freedom are never made into law.
Kathy Haueisen, Reynoldsburg
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