Let's remember why founders enacted a separation of church and state

Unlike a majority of Kitsap voters, I have served as a Republican when the names of Dan Evans and Slade Gorton were more familiar. I was for a couple of terms the Platform Chairman in the days when the national and the state party leaders articulated their purpose easing the task for a county officer -- particularly in the Puget Sound Basin area.

But since 2020, the Republican Party remains unwilling to say for public consumption its values or purposes. I reckon it may be fair to gather that the First Platform would be, if articulated, an old old story: "We gathered as representative of the Republican Party's point of view do hereby support our belief that the culture of the Anglo Saxon Protestant is superior to the cultures of the Jew, the papist, and that of people of color."

Columnist Roosevelt Smith, in the February 18 opinion page of the Kitsap Sun, pointed out an example in 1940s Bremerton when a group made of Jewish and African American citizens were called Communists by this newspaper, when it was known as the Bremerton Sun. National columnist Daniel Darling, in the same issue, challenged any widespread view that Christian Nationalism is worrisome. He shied away from the concept of white supremacy or the Great Replacement theme, which might take our minds towards cultural distinctions.

Darling is not alone in refusing to tell America just what experience Jesus had with Republics that will let those who believe see a Christian basis for the point of view expressed as our Constitution.

William Hattrick, Poulsbo