Letters to the Editor

Many years ago, President Eisenhower drove through the Cove. He named it “The Land of Milk and Honey.” Sadly, if a dignitary visited the area today, he or she would call it “The Land of the Silenced.”

Over the last year I have seen numerous efforts by some citizens to silence anyone who is different than they are.

For example, several months ago a church in the Cove used the bulk of their endowment so in order to disaffiliate from their national church organization, and in that way, they could keep people they didn’t like or judged out of their pews.

It’s sad to think of all the people they co...