Letters on WIC funding, WSU chapel, GOP blind allegiance

Why turn down WIC funding?

I don’t think you can truly understand the Women, Infants and Children program unless you experience it firsthand (“County reduces WIC nutrition funding,” Oct. 8 Eagle). WIC provides healthy food choices for mothers who can’t afford these items. WIC was a godsend to our family when we were starting out. We were a military family, and WIC helped us when we needed it the most.

I pray that I just misunderstood why the Sedgwick County Commission turned down some of the grant money, and that its main focus was not on keeping WIC out of the hands of illegal immigrants. I hope it made sense to not accept $320,000 because doing so somehow benefited the pregnant mothers and hungry children of Kansas.

Let worship

Wichita State University recruits students from around the world. This adds diversity to the campus, which allows students another opportunity to acquire knowledge. After inviting these students to learn at our university, why would we then refuse to let them worship at Grace Memorial Chapel?

Blind allegiance

The writer of “Don’t compromise” (Oct. 7 Letter to the Editor) and many other people think that compromise is not a desirable trait. Unfortunately for them, they do not constituent a majority.

The so-called Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House consists of about 40 members, which puts it at about 10 percent of the House. Why do they think they should make the rules and the laws?

Why has the right moved from a focus on policy to blind fidelity to principles? It is because the American people overwhelmingly reject the right’s policies and agenda. So instead of debating policy, they demand that principles be stuck to, regardless of the effect on our country.

The past two presidential elections were complete rejections of trickle-down, supply-side “economics.” Liberals have dug our country out of its economic disaster, but the right’s demands for austerity and its government shutdowns hinder those efforts.

It is not liberals who are taking a supposedly black-and-white issue and changing the debate. It is conservatives who stop debating policy and introduce blind allegiance to party principles to muddy the waters. It is this blind allegiance, instead of doing what is best for our country, that is the tiny crack that is leading to the complete destruction of our country.

This story was originally published October 12, 2015 at 7:04 PM with the headline "Letters on WIC funding, WSU chapel, GOP blind allegiance."