In his letter “Hit piece on Mastriano yellow journalism” (June 15, TribLIVE), Joe Schmidt said Doug Mastriano, the state’s Republican candidate for governor, is being unfairly attacked by the media because he’s a Christian nationalist. Christian nationalists interviewed in an article that appeared in the Penn Capital Star on May 11 told the newspaper, “God intended America to be a Christian country.” If that’s Mastriano’s belief and he becomes Pennsylvania’s next governor, what happens if he signs an executive order denying non-Christian state residents the right to practice their religions?
Mastriano also is promising as governor, he will order millions of voters’ information removed from county voting rolls and require all voters to resubmit their applications to vote. Mastriano hasn’t shown any real evidence of voter fraud, nor presented a real plan to stop it in the future.
We have been granted freedom of religion and the right to vote by the U.S. and state constitutions. If Mastriano is being attacked by the media, it’s not because of his religious beliefs, but because his plans for Pennsylvania are too radical and too dangerous.
Frances Weiss
White Oak