John’s Letter to the President of the United States
Please read John’s letter that he sent to the sitting president of the United States of America. My blog usually doesn’t cover this kind of content, but I am enthusiastically behind this. May God have mercy on us all, Bobbie
Obamas choice…
Saturday, February 06, 2010
President B. H. Obama
United States of America White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama,
We see that you have appointed another member to the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. I would like to enthusiastically support this initiative HOWEVER; I ask that you immediately remove Harry Knox, from your council. In light of Mr. Knox’s recent comments regarding the Catholic Church, the Pope and, Mr. Knox’s unwillingness to moderate his hateful attitude and speech regarding both; we believe Mr. Knox demonstrates a clear preconceived prejudice against any kind of possible Faith-Based partnership whatsoever!
Mr. Knox’s position regarding condom use in Africa flies in the face of clear scientific evidence against his position. Why would we possibly want someone like Mr. Knox to advise you, our president, while Mr. Knox himself refuses wise counsel?
We are told that the success of Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships and multi-sectarian cooperation by foreign nationals with our military service members in far away places like Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan are critical to USA future national security. But, we at home endure bigotry and extreme prior bias in the attitudes and words of this specific appointee. Mr. Knox is supposed to foster Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. How can this happen? Mr. Knox’s criticism of the Pope; (“harming people in the name of Jesus”) shows a pre-established bias against the Catholic Church. Let me add, we are Protestants (not Catholics) and we find Mr. Knox’s intolerance of our Christian brethren unconscionable! Mr. Knox brings division and prior prejudice to what might otherwise have been one of the more useful councils in your administration.
Mr. President, in order to keep your promises to the American People; to heal our divisions, to promote openness and transparency, and to work to reduce the highly polarized positions that prevail in our land, you MUST remove and replace this inappropriate representative with someone less biased and without prior prejudiced.
May I remind you that the Catholic Church represents about 40% of Christian America? Mr. Knox’s prejudices establish him as an enemy to these 40%. You should consider this in your decision.
I trust you will take definitive action to remove Mr. Knox as soon as possible.
Respectfully,
John M. Pearson
A USA citizen
Regarding the controversy about condom use in Africa, Here’s a link to a site that reports on the Africa condom research. It’s short and refers the reader to opinions by Edward Green, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, who in turn cites data in some peer-reviewed journals such as the Lancet, and Science, etc. that have confirmed that condoms have NOT worked as a primary intervention in the population-wide epidemics of Africa.
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/Daily_Reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=57748
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john says:
So, now we’ll get our IRS forms audited… and, the secret service will come and talk to us. That should be fun. ouch…
Jesseka says:
nice work Dad. You sent this, right?
John C. Pearson says:
You went easy on him. I have to consciously remind myself to pray for him instead of complain and badmouth. I’ve gotten a little more active myself lately. I wrote two letters to our state representative and one to Palin when she was governor in ‘09. I got printed or e-mail responses from ALL of them. So, maybe someone will read it…
Marilyn Mohr says:
Thank you John for this well written letter. We agree with your request to remove Harry Knox from this position. We continue to pray for our country in many respects.
George S says:
From George -
Great letter John!!!
John & Lorrie says:
From John & Lorrie
Wow! I like John’s letter! Can I add my name to it? I think this is small evidence of this weak and anti-American administration. We are proud of your voice in this matter.
Bobbie, if we have a famine, may we come live with you?
Your recipes and pictures are very inspiring. Back to basics – you and Sarah Palin!:)
We love you and are so thankful for our contacts!!!!
P.T.L.!
Keep looking up!
Lorrie and John
P.S. Your background paper/ message display is too cool! Great set up!
pearsonsprogress says:
John & Lorrie,
Thanks for your comments! yes, go ahead and use John’s letter. He sent one via email and one through the US post office.
And YES again! you sure CAN live with us!! You know how we’d LOVE that!!
Web design is all thanks to our Neil. He’s right on top of things!
Michael says:
Thanks for your courageous example.
I couldn’t agree more. On the positive side, This is just another wake up call to “we the people”.
I take joy in the work you are doing. God bless you all.
John M. Pearson says:
Thanks for all your encouraging responses. Michael is right. It’s “we the people”. The problem is that lately Washington is seeing us as “the wee people” and they want to make all our decisions for us. I think the paradigm we have to return to is the representative structure of our government wherein “we the people” EMPLOY representatives to “stand in our place” in congress in order to REPRESENT US. They do not tell us what will be the law of the land, WE TELL THEM! We need to make sure they are listening and when they aren’t, we need to speak up and, if they still refuse to listen we need to remove them post haste and elect representatives who will do what our votes have contracted them to do. I hope that this coming fall we will remove a ton of the decrepit deadwood that clogs the halls of Washington. The American people would benefit greatly from a real house-cleaning. Let’s all participate!