Grandma's House

Thank God not all media outlets have gone off the deep end of the secular pool. The Colorado Springs Gazette is including a free New Testament in each and every copy of this week's Sunday edition, to commemorate the reason for the season.

Included in the version being mailed are testimonials from two local residents who, after living vicarious, secular lives, have turned to the word of God.

I salute their courage in standing up for Christian principles. I'm sure they will catch a lot of flak for their stand, but they feel it's the right thing to do. Too bad more people don't feel that way.

"If I were the editor I would want everyone in my community to feel that the pages of my newspaper are there for them," Kelly McBride-- the ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, an organization that promotes responsible journalism-told the Independent.

"I would want nonbelievers and Muslims and Jews to feel this was their paper as well," he said.

And Mary Simon, administrator of Temple Shalom in Colorado Springs, told the Independent some of her members will cancel their subscriptions to protest the decision.

If you want to let the editors know you appreciate what they're doing, their contact information is here.