Republican presidential candidates: Second look

Letters to the editor:

No religious test

The GOP presidential candidates are seeking an office that requires taking an oath to support a Constitution, which specifies that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office” (“Republican candidates appeal to religious conservatives”). Yet the ones cited in your article continue to proclaim their religious bona fides and even seem to be trying to out-God one another. Enough already: Please address the issues.

Robert A. Legg; Greensboro, Ga.

POLICING THE USA:  A look at race, justice, media

Congress, get to work

Commentary writer Michael Medved’s piece is excellent at showing the folly of both political parties. He does so without using the word “compromise,” which many see as a horrible word (“Medved: Our bipartisan addiction to magical thinking”).

As he said, both parties make impossible promises, and offer childish fantasies and simplistic non-solutions. Both parties want their own way and, like children, if they don’t get it, they won’t let others get theirs.

On immigration, what does the right want? On gun control, what does the left want? Along with a lot of Americans, I want what is best for America, and that is compromise. Maybe the TV media will not try to scare us by saying that any politician who is willing to compromise is waffling.

Hassel “Bud” Hill Jr.; Aurora, Colo.