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Good reasons exist to remove books

Linda Thorson, State Director, Concerned Women for America, Edinburg People fall into three groups regarding children: children, those who protect children, or those who wish to bring harm to children. Thankfully, a great majority of our lawmakers desire to protect minors from access to obscene material and pornography as defined by the North Dakota Obscenity Code in tax-payer-funded libraries. Pornographic written material has been found in children’s sections of public libraries and school libraries across North Dakota. And yet, we have people in the press who believe removing ...

Biblical knowledge exposes false teachers

Steve Moen, Minot I found the pastor’s disparaging remarks about the bills being passed by the legislature in their letter to the editor disconcerting to say the least. The most troubling is their apparent lack of Biblical knowledge and them being the shepherds of their flocks. Their opinions don’t matter, God’s Word does. Paul states in Galatians 1:7-8 “but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” Matthew 1:21 ...

Falsehood to preach that love is sin

Elia Jay Scott, Fargo This letter is in response to the letter published in the Minot Daily News Feb. 25, “Politics used to promote false gospel.” In Matthew 5 and Mark 7, Jesus of Nazareth teaches us that sin is not committed merely with the hands, but with the heart. Tell us, then, those who condemn gay people: What is the difference between the love of a gay man for his husband, and the love of a straight man for his wife, in their respective hearts? Or do you believe your own love is inherently different and superior to the love of a gay couple? If you examine your own ...

North Dakota is now oligarchy

Norton Lovold, Bismarck We are watching all these countries, including the US, being slowly taken over by populists who are attempting to suppress free press, alienate people of color, degrade anyone who is struggling with sexual identity, control and indoctrinate education to assure that control of the state or country is completely run by the oligarchs of that state or country. North Dakota is now very much feeling that is happening with this recent round of legislation. Voting, trans legislation, indoctrinating students, book banning, anti-abortion, relearning our racial history ...

Censorship is authoritarian overreach

Tim Knickerbocker, Minot I expressed my concerns expressed here in a letter to Governor Burgum. I am writing to you to express my concern with the direction the state of North Dakota is turning to censorship of all forms of media available to the public. House Bill 1205 and Senate Bill 2360 are designed to censor the citizens of North Dakota. These bills are saying to the residents, “you are not intelligent enough to make ‘good’ judgement on the media your family members access.” Therefore, the State will enforce the States judgement on what is right and wrong ...

Tell legislators: Bans off my books

Paulette Nelson, Minot House Bill 1205 (relating to public libraries from maintaining explicit sexual material) and Senate Bill2360 (relating to obscenity control, and to provide a penalty for librarians whose libraries contain these supposedly obscene materials) will effectively ban books that I or someone else might want to read. For example, I may want to check out the Bible but if this bill passes as written, libraries will have to remove this book because of all the references to torture, nudity, (they are okay with murder), incest, idolatry, and unwed pregnancy to name a few. ...