Tea Party politics; arts in education

Tea Party politics

The Sunday story about the NE Tarrant Tea Party and its leader, Julie McCarty, said she opens each meeting with a prayer.

Most Americans believe prayer is good. But who do these people pray to?

My family and friends pray to a Christian God, who commands us to be inclusive, tolerant, love our neighbors as ourselves and to live lives based on the Golden Rule.

This is the same God that Pope Francis worships. This certainly cannot be the same God that McCarty and her followers ask for help in accomplishing their goals of exclusion, marginalization, intolerance, injustice and discrimination.

The Tea Party, evangelical groups, progressives, etc., all need to take a civics course or read a book on civics.

Our forefathers at the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention noticed the different opinions and worked to find compromises. That’s how our government works.

Now, it appears we have a minority bully group that wants everything their way or the highway. Shame on them.

Arts in education

I was happy to see in the Sept. 24 editorial (“Lockheed steps up STEM”) that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. will be investing in local education to promote STEM-related coursework.

A forward-thinking Lockheed may also choose to invest in STEAM, which is the inclusion of arts into the discourse of problem-solving.

The workforce of tomorrow may be inspired by using both left- and right-brain strengths to approach traditional STEM problems.

Multidisciplinary approaches generate solutions that are creative, inventive and practical, bringing into play the best of the human experience, both aesthetic and applied.

This story was originally published October 1, 2015 at 5:47 PM with the headline "Tea Party politics; arts in education."