Claims about Obama more like hallucinations

I was perplexed after reading Roger W. Smith's Aug. 20 letter to President Barack Obama.

Smith holds Obama responsible for the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade abortion decision written decades ago. He asserts that we are going to lose our constitutional freedoms and the foundation of all law because of the president's executive order permitting embryonic stem cell research. Because Obama's example suggests it is unacceptable “to mock that which is holy to Jews and Muslims,” Smith believes the president has granted the freedom to ridicule “what Christians regard as holy.”

Beliefs and conclusions held with confidence but not necessarily substantiated by positive knowledge or proof are opinions. A false, distorted perception of events that is confused with reality is a hallucination.

Raymond A. Stassen

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