To the editor: The partisan divide seems to be growing ever wider with each passing day. Over and over we are told that this one did that, or that one did this, and by the time election day comes, everyone is mentally exhausted and riddled with anxiety.
One of the most watched races is of course the Walker-Warnock race.
Herschel was Georgia’s – both the state and the university’s – pride and joy. Photo after photo shows the big, tough Heisman Trophy winner with his bad to the bone game face on. Lest we forget, college and professional football fame comes with a litany of expectations and entitlement that brings about behaviors that are not always exemplary. Standout athletes are wined and dined, put on a pedestal, and treated as if they do nothing wrong. This kind of treatment is extremely intoxicating, and for a big kid with a stutter, from a little known town in middle Georgia, where over thirty-five percent of the population lives below the poverty line, why should anyone be surprised about embellishments?
My question: Is The Rev. Warnock doing a little embellishing of his own?
Is his calling as a reverend really about faith, forgiveness and redemption? Or is his grab for power and status so strong that it matters not that he lay bear the spiritual and non-political failings of another man. Ahhh, politics!
Twenty-five black ministers asked Warnock to reconsider his stance on abortion calling it “contrary to Christian teachings” and in regard to a comment made by then President Trump about the unsavory conditions of certain countries, Warnock made the comment that ‘a proclamation without an apology is hypocrisy’ and “there is no redemption without repentance.”
It is no secret that Walker’s past is troublesome, but we all have things in our pasts that are fraught with periods of shame and darkness. Walker’s countenance today seemingly reflects both repentance and redemption, something that when truly genuine, cannot be fabricated easily.
But Warnock’s attitude seems to be one of hypocrisy: proclamations without apology and apparently without a pastor’s compassion as well. Some things do matter.
Atha Dalton
Baldwin