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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 10, 1993                   TAG: 9301120380
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: F-2   EDITION: METRO 
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AND FREEDOM FOR . . . SOME

RECENT LETTERS by Lewis E. Wertz (Dec. 17) and Francis B. Rogers (Dec. 18) offer a chilling defense of so-called "Christian-conservative" principles. I can only imagine the overwhelming sense of pride and approval they must have felt as they witnessed the onslaught of intolerance, bigotry and hatred perpetuated during last summer's Republican National Convention.

Wertz claims that "the fight for conservative principles is the core of individual freedom and liberty." This is simply untrue. Conservatives would like nothing better than to impose their own brand of morality onto everyone else.

I doubt that a woman's right to choose what to do with her body or a homosexual's right to serve his or her own country in the armed forces fits into Wertz's vision of "individual freedom and liberty."

Once again, we have seen how self-professed "Christians" wrap themselves in their own interpretation of the Bible to justify their right-wing politics. ALAN GLICK BLACKSBURG

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