This letter identifies the problem with pinpoint accuracy: “your life doesn’t matter to us.” But it does not identify the solution. Dear neighbors of Moscow — the solution is for City Council to rescind the monster’s CUP. If you kill it, you’ll eliminate the mass immigration of students/families every year to Moscow. Ditto for Logos School. Stop their growth — no more permits. Christ Church won’t die overnight. But they will begin to shrink like grapes into raisins. Eventually they’ll be an emaciated shell of what they are today.

City Council has only itself to blame for this problem, though it dates back to 2005. It started at City Council; City Council can end it.

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Providing poor witness

I don’t understand what Christ Church is going for. Is it to show contempt for the law and prove their choice of supporting a “principle” over the health of their community? Their maskless protest is not a good witness.

Aren’t Christians supposed to obey the law of the land? (Seriously, this is not that onerous, and does not prevent anyone from believing or worshipping.) And aren’t Christians supposed to love their neighbors?

I am in the vulnerable category because of age and underlying health conditions. I am grateful to the city of Moscow and those who wear masks so that I can feel confident when going to the grocery store, the pharmacy, the veterinarian, and the bank. I feel like Christ Church is giving me the finger and essentially telling me, and others like me, “your life doesn’t matter to us.”

Janice Wall
Garfield

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