It’s a shame we allowed prayer to slide out of our athletic routine

TO THE EDITOR:

I would like to respond to both letters published in the Sept. 19 paper.

To Jackie Powers: Thank you for asking the question, ‘What happened to Warren County’? I am no county official but I believe I can answer your question. Like everything else, we’ve let it slide.

We let it slide at the first game that has now turned into all the games. We’ve let several immoral and irresponsible things happen. We can’t pray at school or at games, but homosexuality can be rubbed in our faces in school and at the games and that’s OK. Parents don’t correct their children. Teachers aren’t allowed to.

As the saying goes, ‘Give the devil an inch and he’ll be your ruler.’ We’ve let it slide one too many times and now there’s no going back.

To Drema Matthews of Sparta: Ma’am, I have no idea who those kids were, but I apologize for their rude, distasteful and tacky behavior to you, the players and the families. Please don’t hold that against the rest of us.

Terrenia Ashburn
Short Mountain Road
McMinnville