Some of the letters are preceded by the item that prompted them.

Hagerstown Morning Herald

NEWS ITEM, March 5, 1987

31 Ala. school texts banned
Judge says books promote secular humanism

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR MARCH 15, 1987

Response to Ala. school texts banned.
Alabama book judge delves into religion

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A postscript from many years later:
 The Eleventh Circuit Court unanimously reversed him, with Judge Frank stating that Hand held a "misconception of the relationship between church and state mandated by the establishment clause," commenting also that the textbooks did not show "an attitude antagonistic to theistic belief. The message conveyed by these textbooks is one of neutrality: the textbooks neither endorse theistic religion as a system of belief, nor discredit it."
[--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brevard_Hand accessed 12 Nov 2013.]

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Hagerstown Morning Herald

OPINION, May 6, 1987

Syndicated Columnist Charley Reese on Abortion

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR MAY 15, 1987

Response to Charley Reese

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR AUG. 26, 1987

Evolution and Faith by George McClelland

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR SEP. 1, 1987

Response to George McClelland
What is Knowledge?

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR SEP. 17, 1988

Rape and Abortion -- One Won't Justify the Other
by Kenneth Leonard

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR SEP. 25, 1988

Response to Kenneth Leonard and others
Thanks for This Sick Stuff

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR MAR. 18, 1993

Columnist Tim Rowland, "Name Game Troubles Bartlett"

and my reply "Tim Tickles Me"

Hagerstown Morning Herald

GUEST EDITORIAL NOV. 7, 1993

Economics of Abortion by Andrew Auxt

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR NOV. 21, 1993

My Response to Economics of Abortion by Andrew Auxt

Hagerstown Morning Herald

GUEST EDITORIAL NOV. 21, 1993

Response of Dusty Morgan to Economics of Abortion by Andrew Auxt

Dusty Morgan, actually Diane Morgan, was a friend of mine active in feminist politics. She was a professor at a nearby university. Her guest editorial was printed the same day as my letter. Or vice-versa.

Hagerstown Morning Herald

GUEST EDITORIAL NOV 19, 1995

Christain Right Spells GOP Defeat by Donald Currier

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Feb 2, 1996

My Response to Donald Currier

The letters reproduced included a letter by Diane Morgan, previously mentioned on this page.
 

Hagerstown Morning Herald

GUEST EDITORIAL Nov. 15, 1998

Religion Doesn't Have to be Immoral

This featured letter  is my reaction to the murder of an abortion doctor. I attempted to shame the religions right community into coming back to Jesus. This is probably the last item I wrote for publication except for the one below.

Hagerstown Morning Herald

LETTER TO THE EDITOR DEC. 7, 1998

Christian Groups Have Close Ties

The story here is that a young lady I knew and I were asked by Washington County NOW to go into the enemy camp and spy on the plans of the Christian Coalition of Washington County, Maryland. That we did at their organizational meeting on July 14, 1994. After escaping to friendly lines, we developed notes for NOW toward trying to understand who their leaders were and how they were organized and interconnected. The continuing discussion on the editorial page between political factions heated up markedly in 1998, the election year subsequent to 1994, when a Democratic candidate for county commission, Ms. Irvin-Craig, accused the Concerned Christians/Christian Coalition of intentionally misrepresenting her position in the latter's 1994 voter's guide. As I read others' letters, it came to me that I had something to contribute -- my firsthand knowledge of their organizational meeting four years before. In this letter I attempted to point out the contradictions and misstatements made in 1998 by the leaders of the local reilgious right groups.

Some of the other letters published in that thread from October to December are shown for context below.
Letter to the editor from Linda Irvin-Craig Oct. 30, 1998. 
Letter to the editor Nov. 6, 1998 from George F. Michael, Chairman, Concerned Christian Committee.
Letter to the editor from Randy Chanquris Nov 30, 1998.

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