Mick Sheldon, in his letter to the editor (“Lift us up, and not in shame,” page A5, Dec. 4 Herald), presents two conclusions that have no basis in fact.

The first is that Joe Kennedy, a Bremerton High School assistant football coach, was prevented from acting out his religious belief or opinion because that belief was Christian. The fact is that since the 14th Amendment was adopted (“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”), no public employee can seem to prefer or hinder a religion while a public employee.

The second false conclusion has to do with charter schools. Such schools were determined to be other than those that can be funded by public money, in the ways that public schools are funded — not because of “political forces,” but because such schools do not have the constituent parts named in our Constitution.

Mike Hattrick
Poulsbo