Opinion Line Extra (April 6)

After the firestorm last year over the proposed “religious freedom” bill forced even the Kansas Senate to back down, now Indiana and Arkansas have stepped into the same buzz saw. Republicans seem to be slow learners.

You inclusion fanatics cry for equal rights for gays while advocating the punishment of people who follow God’s Word. What makes that so noble? Get off your high horse and use some common sense. Same-sex couples can find a like-minded cake baker, musician or whatever.

I’m fed up with the Christian bashing. If you think a business should be forced to participate in something the owners find morally repugnant, then you’re the bigot, and a statist, too. Apparently, “love” and “tolerance” don’t apply to Christians and Jews as far as liberals are concerned.

I agree that we should eliminate the so-called religious freedom laws. Let’s take it one step further and eliminate religion. I feel sorry for all the people who need the religious crutch to survive. The world will never have peace as long as people believe in the God fantasy.

Americans will rue the day they ever elected Barack Obama as president.

If New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is being prosecuted for his behavior, then where is the investigation of Hillary Clinton for the contributions to the Clinton Foundation from private companies and foreign governments while she was in office?

In Kansas under the Second Amendment, “a well regulated militia” will no longer exist under the new conceal and carry law on July 1. The previous law required the citizen militia to obtain training in the proper use and handling of a handgun to obtain a conceal and carry permit.

I don’t know where Gov. Sam Brownback came up with the idea Kansas gun owners are responsible people, unless it’s what the NRA told him to say.

“Trickle-down economics” in reality: Brownback and his lemming legislators pass the block grant for financing education, and Butler County sends me a mail-in ballot to vote for a mill-levy increase for school funding.

I’m happy that Beth Clarkson is pursuing an open-records lawsuit seeking voting-machine records. Maybe this will have a side benefit of revealing two more instances of voter fraud, bringing the total up to around four.

Irony – the day Gregg Marshall agrees to stay in Wichita, the weather shows it can “play angry,” too.

Congratulations to WSU for keeping Gregg Marshall. It is too bad that Wichita can’t figure out a way to use money like this to attract jobs or keep jobs like Boeing. That way this large amount of money affects more than just one family.

Let’s give everybody a varsity letter, since they must not mean anything. Everybody gets a trophy, too. You’re all winners at least until you get into the real world.

This story was originally published April 5, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (April 6)."