Religious freedoms are alive and well

To the editor:

I wish someone would tell me where the losses of freedom are that Scott Walker and the other right wing politicians keep mentioning. Yesterday I got up and went to a Catholic church exercising my right to religion. My neighbors on one side are Lutheran, I think; my neighbors to the other side belong to the United Church of Christ. Not one was forbidden from going to the church of their choice or the freedom of no religion. Another example, my best friend is an atheist. Still a good person. It is not my job to tell those people to go or not to go to church. This is a freedom.

I can stand on the street corner with a protest sign. As long as I don't get too rowdy and stay peaceful, no one can legally stop me. When I voted in November, no one told me how to vote. It's called exercising a freedom.

The only people in today's United States in danger of losing freedoms or rights are young women of childbearing years. Right-wingers want to outlaw abortions. The far right politicians would force young women to have invasive medical procedures to convince them not to have abortions. A couple of years ago some would have prevented women from buying birth control under the Affordable Care Act. So I ask Scott Walker and the others, who is restricting freedoms? Not me.

Jean Marie Hall

Elkader