Column Rouses Emotions Over Pat Robertson and Republicans
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Tim Rutten’s article really hit home. Since the Republicans’ revivalist meeting in Houston, I had been unable to identify why it was impossible for me to watch the convention for more than three minutes at a time. Rutten’s piece held the key--it was the KKK. No, not the Ku Klux Klan, but rather Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (children, kitchen, church)--the Nazi ideal of womanhood.
I challenge these demagogues and bigots to explain how, in this free society, they dare impose their values and their religion upon me, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and my children. I challenge them to explain how their platform upholds the separation of church and state--one of the founding doctrines of this great and free nation.
SUSAN K. GOLANT
Los Angeles
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