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Separation of Church and State?
If she did not leave a living
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of people.
All those facts remain
true today.
It is equally true that
Cash, editor and publisher
of The Baytown Sun, on
behalf of the newspaper’s
editorial board.
trustees and administrators
did not deal fairly with the
rezoning committee that
devoted some 3,000 man
ity of the governors' races.
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control.
Five years ago: The U.N.
Security Council unanimously
demanded that Iraq resume
cooperation with UN. weapons
inspectors immediately.
One year ago: In midterm,
Things aren’t always the
way they seem. Someone has
with Morrell Park and Stewart
Heights annexation. The move
Wanda Gamer Cash,
Editor and Publisher
that everyone should live by are posted.
□d. John P. Young
Old River-Winfree
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has compassion.
Just think about it.
Carolyn McLaren
South Houston
Founded 1922
David Bloom,
Managing Editor
Fred Hartman, Publisher Emeritus
1950-1974
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The First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an
- establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ■
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.
OPINIONS
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Police relc
of attempt
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
The Baytown Police De
released an artists renderii
suspect who attempted to
10-year-old girl as she
bicycle to James Bowie Eh
School Thursday morning.
The girl reported that as
stopped at the internet
Mockingbird Lane and
Street (immediately in fro
school), a man grabbed he
tire, knocking her to the
She said that as she tried
away, the man grabbed 1
and tried to pull her towan
She said she escaped his
kicking him, then grabbed
and rode to school, wl
reported the incidents to of
She described her attac
white man between 30 and
of age with black hair, br<
and clean-shaven. The poli<
further describes him as
“chubby" build, decaying t
“extremely smelly breath.”
Our editorial board
The Baytown Sun’s editorial board
meets weekly at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Individuals are encouraged to visit the
editorial board to discuss issues
affecting the community. To make an
appointment, contact Managing Editor
David Bloom, 281-422-8302.
Members of the editorial board
include: Wanda Gamer Cash, editor
and publisher; David Bloom, manag-
ing editor; Joseph Lohan, city editor;
Dee Anne Navarre, business manag-
er; Jim Finley, retired Sun managing
editor; and Jane Howard Lee, retired
Sun reporter.
Let us hear from you
The Baytown Sun welcomes letters
of up to 300 words and guest columns
of up to 500 words on any item of pub-
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to one per month. All letters and guest
columns subject to editing. The Sun
reserves the right to refuse to publish
any submission. i
Please send signed letters to:
Wanda Gamer Cash or David Bloom,
The Baytown Sun, P.O, Box 90,
Baytown, 77522.
Or, fax them to: 281-427-1880. Or,
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religion (thank God). However, godly
peoplg.,of either persuasion can learn
some good things from one another.
Don’t look now, but while our
thoughts have been kept so focused on
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was probably startled but
not surprised by the discus- hours to finding a solution.
The warning to “spend no
money” was the most
telling clue that it was not
to be a good-faith partner-
ship. Absent the financial
wherewithal, and lacking
results from a promised dis-
trict-wide facility assess-
ment study that didn’t come
until five months after the
committees recommenda-
tion, the civic-minded vol-
unteers were effectively set
up for failure.
This was clearly evident
in May when the commit-,
tee reported its findings to
the board, encountering an
adversarial atmosphere,
insulting comments and
questions dominated by
concerns over band uni-
forms and football.
The Baytown Sun
endorsed the rezoning com-
mittee’s OnePlus+ Plan to
merge the high schools on
separate campuses as the
best short-term option for
students and taxpayers until
Goose Creek and the
Legislature solve the school
funding crisis.
For a year and a half, the
committee played by the
rules the administration and
school board laid out.
Monday, the school board
changed the rules.
Regardless of which
option the school board
Creek’s already hightax rate ultimately selects, the tragic
wouldn’t generate adequate
money to run a third high
From Sun files
In 1933, George Lord, for-
mer Texas Aggie luminary,
announced he will coach the
Ex Ganders of Robert E. Lee in three-year drought against the
preparation for their post sea-
son game with the Gander
sion of a third high school
at Monday’s school board
meeting. That topic was
ruled taboo when the high
school rezoning committee
began its work 18 months
ago, but it continued to be
the whispered agenda
across the community.
The reversal makes it
plain that the rezoning
committee’s work was an
exercise in futility.
Apparently, the administra-
tion and trustees had their
own solution in mind, even
as they repeated that a third
high school was not an
option.
And despite what the
school board said Monday
night, combining an expla-
nation and apology to the
rezoning committee, cir-
cumstances have not
changed.
Back in April 2002,
research indicated the high
school enrollments would
double by 2011. That the
shifting populations and
neighborhoods would
widen the growing academ-
ic and socioeconomic
inequities between Sterling
and Lee.
That the district Vi ild
need a short-term solution
to the crowding problem
while it figured out a long-
range plan, and how to pay
for it. That increasing Goose
He sued for and got a lot of should not be the deciding fac-
money from her situation. He tor. The award of the court wishes of another mother who
keeps her family away from should be for her care only,
her by denying them visitation. '
He has a live-in girlfriend
who has given him a fhild. No to be the voice for her. Why
House for a second term but
kept Congress in Republican would triple the size of the city
and add 1,800 persons to the
population. *
In 1978, State Rep. Joe
Allen and Ed Emmet cam-
• paigned for the District 78
representative position. Allen,
a Democrat and incumbent,
and Emmet, a Republican,
campaigned in Baytown for
the seat. Two days later,
. Emmet was elected with 699
more votes.
In 1993, The Robert E. Lee
Ganders football team scored
15 points in the fourth quarter
to beat the Ross S. Sterling
Rangers 15-12, and ended a
the Tri-Cities engaged in seis-
mographic work for an oil
company and has offered to
whip the Exes into shape for
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In 1940, The Goose Creek
City Council voted to go ahead positions at the plant. . ' C- ■
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In responding to the letter writ-
ten by Cyrus Fletcher dealing
with the deficit, I came up with
many questions. First let me say, I
have the utmost respect for Mr.
Fletcher, and this is in no way '
directed at him. It Just seems we
disagree on various political
issues. First of all, for almost all
of my adult life I have constantly
heard Democratic politicians
chastise Republicans for wanting
to give tax cuts to the rich. What I
never have heard any of them say
is, just exactly who these “rich”
people are. I decided to see if I
could figure it out on nty own,
since I’ve realty enjoyed the tax -
cuts my family has received, and I-
don’t feel like I’m “rich” or a •
“crony”.
I discovered that the truth is, ’■
only the rich pay income taxes.
The top 50 percent of wage earn-;
ers in America in 2001 paid ’
96.03 percent of all income taxes.;
That’s less than $4 out of each -
$100 paid tty the bottom 50 per- •
cent of wage earners. So it makes -
sense to say that the top 50 per-
cent of wage earners must be
classified as “the rich." I was J
shocked to find that those top *
50% were made up of individuals •
or couples filing jointly who •
earned $26,000 and up. So it -
seems that I am rich when you go »;
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In recent weeks frequent mention has
been made in the media concerning the
separation of church and state. Most of
this latest round of controversy is being
fueled by the debate over the Ten
Commandments and whether or not they keeping the church from having an influ-
ence upon the state, the state has literally
invaded the church.
So, you don’t believe me? Get a group
of people together, and set out to build a
little church house for them to worship
' in. By the time you get through meeting
all of the regulations that local, state and
sometimes even the federal government
places upon churches, you will have both
an extremely high-priced facility and one
that will have more than a few unconse-
crated things in the sanctuary. Why?
Because you are not a church, whose
sanctuary is a private, consecrated place
of worship, separate from and not subject
to invasion by the state. You are a com-
mercial holding, just like any other busi-
ness, and will be treated as such by the
state and some businesses. In fact, on
some fronts, witchcraft is respected as a
religion equal to others under the law.
Believe it or not, in Louisiana, if a
church is sued, individual members df
the congregation can be sued in addition -
to the church if they do not have incor-
poration documents filed with the state.
Maybe we should be as worried about
the state encroaching upon the church as
belong on public display. This whole
episode to me is has a little hypocrisy on
both-sides.
First, those who worship the God of
the Bible, and enter with their religion
into the political arena, violate one of the
most basic biblical concepts, which is:
“You cannot serve both God and His
holy government, and mankind’s carnal
governments together.” That being said,
and knowing that the principles of reli-
gion and state are often incompatible, we
likewise would be ignorant to think that
religion has no influence on our elected
government officials.
Secondly, to remove all biblical sym-
bols and quotations from public display,
would require the state to tear down half
of the buildings the government has built
in Washington, D.C.
We do not need religion of any kind in
our government, but more importantly,
we do not need any government (at any
level) to impose itself upon our religious
beliefs, our church buildings and sanctu-
aries, or any ethical practices, and
administration of church government.
No matter what preachers and politi-
cians may say, preaching and politics do
not make good companions. People don’t we are about where those 10 good rules
go to church to hear a speech about the
economy, and we don’t send our friends
and neighbors to Washington, D.C, to get
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‘Things aren’t always the way they seem’
Your response on the inter-
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one would say he shouldn’t not her family or Jeb Bush?
ference of Jeb Bush to stop the move on with his life, but he If she did not leave a living
starvation of this man’s wife should leave her care to some- will or physician’s directive, he
was much like mine until I one who still loves her. Love should not be allowed to
watched Ted Koppel. The fact has worked miracles for people decide her death. The clips of
that it is monetaiy gains for her in her condition. The millions her eyes say she is alive inside
husband should be considered, he would inherit from her death that body; and I think Jeb who
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Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, President Clinton to the White
the 309th day of 2003. There
are 56 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in Histoiy:
On Nov. 5,1605, the
"Gunpowder Plot” failed as
Guy Fawkes was seized before
he could blow up the English
Parliament.
On this dale: . _ ,
In 1911, Galbraith P. Rodgeis elections, Republicans won
arrived in Pasadena, Calif., control of both houses of
completing the first transconti- Congress and claimed a major-
nental airplane trip in 49 days. *
In 1912, Woodrow Wilson
was elected president, defeating
Progressive Republican
Theodore Roosevelt and
incumbent Republican William
Howard Taft.
In 1940, President Franklin
Roosevelt won an unprecedent-
ed third term in office as he
defeated Republican challenger Eleven of 1933. Lord is now in
Wendell L. Willkie.
In 1968, Richard M. Nixon
won the presidency, defeating
Vice President Hubert H. ____
Humphrey and third-party can- the conflict
didate George C, Wallace.
In 1996, voters returned
mishandling of this so-
called grassroots process is
school. That the pitiful state unlikely to inspire much
of the Texas public school confidence in future
funding couldn’t be counted attempts at community
on for a solution. involvement.
And that whatever solu-
tion was proposed would Today 's editorial was
surely anger a large number written by Wanda Gamer
40 percent of the people who
receive dividends make less than
$50,000. Again, another tax cut
that supposedly only helps “the
rich.”
With regards to the spiraling J
deficits, I also did a little J
research. Let me first state that I 1
am not a fan at all of government 4
budget surpluses. To me that just 4
means the government has taken •
too much of our money and will •
create more unneeded spending *
programs with it. I’d like to think I
that I can decide best, how to
spend my money. I found that the /
Budget surplus was 125 billion in j
1999,232 billion in 2000, and j
127 billion in 2001 (so the •
deficits were not happening long •
before 9/11). The budget returned •;
to a deficit in 2002 after 9/11, 2
corporate scandals, a mild reces-
sion and the bust of the stock „
market bubble. The deficit for fis-*
cal 2002 was 157 billion, and the »'
deficit was 374 billion for fiscal •
2003. This 374 billion represents •;
3.5 percent of the GDE which is »;
smaller than the deficits of the »;
mid ’80s and early ’90s relative J;
to the size of the economy. I J
believe the economy is stabilizing *
due in part to the tax cuts, and •
that we will see the deficits begin •
to shrink in the future barring any*
terrorists, catastrophes The ?
Nasdaq is up about 40 percent for J
the year and the Dow is up about $
18 percent. This is obviously a *
sign that we are turning the cor- •
ner. ;
Something I’m sure Mr. *
Fletcher and I can both agree on, ♦
is that Mr. Bush, Mr. VWmer and »;
our party have a president that |
just signed a ban on partial birth J
abortion, which when compared J
d ' uio wifh financial issues makes •
,an®e money seem pretty insignificant. •
nv™fy- __ The past administration began a »;
_ One year ago. Degussa spiral |,jgger J.
Engineered Carbons has pQ^ya] to do much I
announced that it will stop pro- more damage to our country than*
j..^. the deficit. That is the rapid ’
decline of moral values in our •
country. i..
by the Democrats’ definition of
“rich.” These slick politicians
have learned that if you say
support of almost all media out- •
lets, people will eventually
believe what you are saying. I
would venture to guess that when
people say “rich” that most
Americans think of millionaires, J
corporate executives and famous J
athletes, when in reality “rich” is J
referring to them. Obviously <
when dealing in percentages, the 4
more you earn the larger your tax »
cut will be, but that seems only J
fair to me. Another interesting J
thing I found was that more than £
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 340, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 5, 2003, newspaper, November 5, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184977/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.