Editor:

Can you imagine billboards with stained-glass window backgrounds, saying "Imagine No Religion," and "Praise Darwin: Evolution Beyond Belief" put up by the Freedom From Religion Foundation? They already have freedom from religion! No one forces them to attend church. Yet, they want removal of the San Diego cross, and to force their beliefs in schools of evolution, which has never been proven, and the whole liberal agenda without teaching the alternative: creationism. This billboard information is on the Presidential Prayer Team Internet site that began after 9/11. Weekly, they state prayer requests for our president and government. This week's requests were for the president's efforts for peace in Iraq and Afghanistan, for the economy, and for protection of churches across America because of recent violence toward people of faith.

Our nation relied on God through critical times, e.g., the Civil War, and events before and after. In a speech at Edwardsville, Ill., on Sept. 11, 1858, Abraham Lincoln said, "Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism ...Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you." Lincoln credited God for planting the love of liberty in us. The Virginian settlers planted the cross on the shore when they landed, and according to Vice President Henry Wilson, "the stern old Puritans who made the deck of the Mayflower an altar of the living God, and whose first act on touching the soil ... was to offer on bended knees thanksgiving to Almighty God."

Speaking of a "cunning tyrant," we now have one who pushes agendas by rushing bills through that members of Congress haven't time to read, nor may it be put on the Internet for the people.

DORIS SOULE, Wheatland