To the editor:

During the attorney general’s race Phill Kline brought up the dismissed lawsuit against Paul Morrison. In doing so, Kline tossed aside a major tenant of the Christian religion, which in years past and present he stated publicly was a driving force in his life. That tenant is forgiving and forgetting the past transgressions of the sinner and moving on from there.

As I have watched politics unfold over the last 30 years, many politicians who claim to be “Christian” have put aside various tenants of their faith in order to obtain the power of elected office. After obtaining the office they put aside what they promised and embraced their own agendas.

Kline has been chosen to the district attorney’s office of Johnson County by precinct committee people composed of mostly professed Christians. By supporting and standing by Kline, they are doing the same thing in order to keep the power of that office in the “hands of their own kind.”

People who abandon the philosophy by which they run their daily private lives for the sake of obtaining power of the elected office in my opinion need to re-examine their “faith.”

Michael Darling,

Lawrence