Referring to the cartoon in the Nov. 20 edition of the North Kitsap Herald, you show conservative governors preventing Joseph and Mary from having a room at the inn, and equate that prevention with pausing the uncontrolled admission of Syrian refugees into the U.S. until the security risks can be sorted out.

In one cartoon, you have managed to insult three overlapping categories of Americans: truth-seeking, rational citizens; Christians; and defenders of our culture and borders. The lie propagated in the cartoon must be countered before it becomes the basis of political choices that Kitsap voters make, which negatively impact my family and me.

In the first case, conservatives who want to see immigration managed safely do not want to henceforth turn away all refugees. If refugees could be guaranteed of never being a risk to our safety or culture until they were returned to their homes, conservatives would gladly give them shelter. A more rational plan would be building and defending a safe zone so the displaced people having no culture of freedom could stay at least near their country until a real leader dealt with the terrorists, and then they could go home.

We do owe protection to Middle Easterners who are specifically targeted for murder because of their religion. We especially owe our brothers and sisters in faith the offer of temporary safety of the U.S. because America has betrayed them so badly for the past seven years. Based on previous actions by the Obama administration it is completely expected that the imported thousands of poorly vetted Syrians (to begin with) would be spirited away to unknown parts of the country, only to surface again when it came time to vote for liberals. Why else has this administration sued every locality that tried to have integrity of the vote?

In the second case, literate people understand that Joseph and Mary were so pure in their devotion to God that they were the only ones deemed worthy of the blessing and responsibility of rearing Jesus, the perfect example of love and righteousness. By running the cartoon, you agree with the lie of moral equivalence between the Syrian immigrants, one in seven of which are sympathetic with those who today crucify Christians, and Joseph and Mary of Nazareth.

Since the start of Obama’s second term, this administration has admitted only 53 Syrian Christian refugees, while importing Syrian Muslims by the thousands. Today, we have people here who escaped death in their Central American home countries and have been waiting between 10 and 20 years for the U.S. to process their applications for asylum, and for just as long have been separated from their families. The bureaucrats are not interested in helping these people who want to be Americans, but welcome in the MS13 gangs by the trainload. To portray conservative governors as hypocrites is itself the height of hypocrisy.

Finally, the cartoon tries to bury the truth that two of the Muslim extremists who killed and wounded about 480 people in Paris in a few minutes were imported to France with refugees. To think that the U.S. is better able to identify terrorists at the border than European countries is laughable. This administration even tries to change our vocabulary in its refusal to identify the enemy. And, yes, there is an enemy who has sworn to transform our values, world view, religion, and basis of law to a system that was never intended by the framers and protectors of the American system.

Someone has to step up to the constitutional responsibility to protect Americans first in balancing safety with compassion, and it is the conservative governors who seem to be doing it.

David Simpson
Kingston