Letters to the editor June 12

Support Logan nurses

It’s perplexing how our local hospital wants to buy a medical center in Billings, but doesn’t seem to be able to find monies to adequately pay their own nursing staff who live and work and are our neighbors in this valley.

Nurses are becoming an endangered species. We need to support them. Logan needs to provide their nursing staff and hospital staff with fair wages and working conditions because our lives depend upon it.

— Karlene Khor, Kalispell

School nutrition funding

So, when did Gov. Greg Gianforte become the “Soup Nazi” to the children of Montana?

— Priscilla Life, Bigfork

What is Christian nationalism?

Freedom of religion is considered a fundamental human right. The biggest challenge and concern that threatens religious liberty in America is the politicization as a culture war issue.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from encouraging or promoting religion in any way and guarantees the separation of church and state.

Select elected officials of the Montana Republican Party argue and use liberty talk and religion from prepared canned laws, which have been drafted in ultra-conservative church backrooms. Anti-government announcements surface, fear and scare mongering emerge while campaigning.

When nationwide ultra-conservative Christians and a select group of Montana state elected officials ally themselves to one another, we have what is called Christian nationalism. This partnership is judgmental, silently determines their true Christian nationalist leaders, using unlimited dark money. Our state democratic government is attacked and diversity declines. Their laws aim to destroy selected health care. Public education is targeted, and infiltrated with false and limited facts.

A select set of 2023 laws, related to ultra-conservative Christian nationalism beliefs, are seeping into our communities here in Montana, similar to fascism in Germany 1930s-40s. Calculated attempts to destroy the Montana Constitution, altering our liberty and freedoms plus the democracy in which we live, must be stopped. The Montana Constitution is nonpartisan with just laws, created by honest Montana citizens for every Montanan.

Watch for information about an upcoming forum, protecting and defending the 1972 Montana Constitution.

— JoLynn Yenne, Kalispell