More to moral code

Jim Zbick fails to grasp that one can have a moral code without the Ten Commandments.

I believe my personal moral code will stack up against his any time, and my code is based on secular values.

He also seems to forget that people can interpret the Ten Commandments and Christianity in many ways.

After all, the people who hung witches in Salem believed in the same Ten Commandments.

The portion of the First Amendment pertaining to freedom of religion specifies that we have a right to worship as we want (the free exercise clause), but also that the state may not impose an official religion on its citizens (the no establishment part).

What the clerk in Kentucky was doing went even beyond imposing a religion —she was imposing her own personal values on two people who wanted a license because she found them offensive.

Thousands of other local officials, many deeply religious, had no problems issuing licenses to gay men and women.

Roy Christman

Lehighton