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With 197,179 people in St. Joseph County registered to vote, only 116,688 actually showed up and voted in the 2020 elections a 59% turnout rate. What causes such a low turnout for these elections? Well, people are just not showing enough interest or are too uneducated in matters to care. People see the brutal misconceptions about politics in the United States and just decide not to vote or care about politics in general.

Incorporating politics in schools could possibly help people better understand the subject and how much impact it has on our small communities. They would have to be taught with unbiased informationso teens can learn to gather information on their own and develop their own opinions. It would also open more opportunities for kids, giving them firsthand knowledge of political sciences, making it another extremely important career option.Teaching high school kids about politics would ensure thatyoung adults, who are able to vote in a few years, would have the knowledge they would need so they could go into the working world as educated and well-versed citizens.

It is rational for the atheist to go apoplectic over the recent Texas law. The law robs the atheists of their control. Those who believe in God recognize that human life has a unique value. The law simply protects a child with a beating heart.

It seems that a state should have the right to not kill its own citizens. For those who believe in God, the child in the womb is a one of a kind, infinitely valuablemasterpiece created by God for a mission. Their life is a consequence of choices that were made by others. Choices have consequences. It serves humanity well to not kill the innocent.

The thoughtful humanperson has grappled with truth from the ancient Greeks to those today who believe that one can more deeply understand the true, the good and the beautiful. May we all be counted among the thoughtful! The thoughtful forge a culture of life!

Rev. Glenn Kohrman

South Bend

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