Quit electing zealots per Joan

Note:
I received a nasty comment concerning this letter. So, I came back to say I did not write this letter and even though I agree with some aspects of it but.......
People should be able to vote for whomever they want. But, it appears many did not vote at all therefore the result was that a radical right wing person is now in office representing heathen Native Americans. It's Maddening!
I think it's terrible people don't vote especially when its so important. Then there are those who vote but really don't really know who they are voting for. I think Jore is an exceptional failure of our representative election process. It's no-ones fault but those who didn't prevent this. I can only guess the Flathead is a mess. This tells me white people on the Reservation are pissed about something and the Natives don't care. I was born in Ronan and my parents grew up on the Rez. They moved back only a few years ago. Are they happy to be back? I will have ask them what the hell is going on over there.
Another thing about the nasty commenter, was this person quoted the founding fathers to support his or her point. It's an old game that does not convince me or anyone. It like the quoting the bible. Pointless, because everyone "intreprets" it differently. It's the same with the constitution, people "intrepret" it differently. I too can quote the founding fathers to support my opinions an what I think is truely American. The original pledge, Jefferson, Paine..... Hero's of the enlightenment.
Nothing bothers the right wingers more is the idea that the United States was a product of THE ENLIGHTENMENT.

THE LETTER
I certainly hate the idea of a Montana state legislator telling me what is “divinely instituted,” and what isn’t.My goodness, does Rick Jore make his legislative decisions based on his personal religious beliefs? Is he trying to enact those personal religious beliefs into Montana law for God’s sake? Laws that every Montana citizen is required to obey?What’s going on here?I remember that during the ’95 session when a lot of these missionaries got elected, an interim committee was actually formed to see if Montana’s churches and private social services programs could pick up the slack if all federal programs were curtailed!They couldn’t.Now, all these years later, Rick Jore is back telling us that federal aid to education is “welfare for education.” I hope all the parents whose children benefit from school lunches, Title reading and math programs, impact aid, and many other needed federal programs, are paying attention!When are Montanans going to wise up and quit electing these zealots to the Legislature?

By, Joan Hurdle, Billings