If you decide to continue in office, I offer my services to help both of you more fully understand the state’s Sunshine Act.


Oh, that’s right. I’ve been trying to do that for the commissioners, including outgoing Commissioner Pete Shaub, for more than a year in this column.


Commissioner Henderson claims the grand jury report ‘‘vindicates’’ her.


Not so fast. You had plenty of time to go public about the sale of Conestoga View, but didn’t.


Debate is history




Imagine this:


A scholar rummaging through a dusty, forgotten archive finds minutes of a meeting from the 1780s that reveal the Founding Fathers got together one sunny day after church and agreed that their new country is a Christian nation, founded on Christian principles.


Or, the scholar finds notes that indicate the Founding Daddies met at the local tavern and decided that it was too dangerous to think of their new country as a Christian nation. They feared that down the road, it could lead to a state religion, or the exclusion or persecution of those with other beliefs.


Would either of these scenarios make any difference in the way we live, worship (if we so choose) and are governed?


Not one bit.


Except for bragging rights, perhaps.


The nation would not topple. Our government would not become a theocracy on one hand, nor would we become a godless society on the other.


A debate flared on these pages after an “In My Opinion’’ piece by Karl Moyer Dec. 17. Dr. Moyer, a retired Millersville University music professor, took the view that the United States was not founded as a Christian nation and that Christian fundamentalists endanger our freedoms.

Michael R. Myers, headmaster of Dayspring Christian Academy, followed Dec. 24 with his “Opinion,’’ which stated that the nation, indeed, was founded on Christian principles and that Christian fundamentalism is not a danger to our freedoms.


The battle was joined. Letter writers have tripped over themselves the past three Sundays to agree, disagree and, in some cases, become downright disagreeable. And personal. There comes a time when an editor says “enough is enough.’’


After today, we will not publish any letters linked to the Moyer-Myers opinion pieces.


Am I cutting off debate? Taking away your freedom of speech?


I don’t see it that way. All that can be said has been said on this issue, many times over. Frankly, I print too many letters that say nothing new.


This thing has gone past debate. Neither side is listening to the other.


Some of the discourse reminds me of two boys in a playground standoff.


“Oh, yeah?’’


“Yeah!’’


Better housekeeping




We moved some furniture again this week. The restaurant inspection reports are now in the Business section, Page D8 today.


Bon appetit.


Now cut that out




A plea to readers: When you meet 11-year-old daughter Abigail, please don’t tell her you read the bottom of this column first, and sometimes don’t read the rest.


That inflates her ego.


And bruises mine.


Of course, at my house, I’m not permitted to have an ego.


Marv Adams invites questions. Send them by e-mail to madams@lnpnews.com or mail to: Sunday News, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, Pa. 17608-1328.