Comment submitted by Gregory Skiba

Any thinking person who sincerely believes America is, or should be, a “Christian nation” MUST be appalled, dismayed and angry that the current U.S. government is proposing that the EPA rescind, or extend deadlines for implementing, rules safeguarding and thereby protecting our own citizens, especially the most vulnerable, from the poisonous, disastrous effects of exposure to PFAS contaminated water. The scientific documentation of these dangers, and their actual consequences, has been numerously and clearly stated elsewhere in hundreds of comments opposing the proposed deleterious reversals or delays in implementation of needed and necessary rules to provide safe water to our citizens and all residents of the United States. These rules need to be kept in tact and implemented as initially intended, without delay. A government that touts itself as a moral example to the world and a global advocate for Justice and Liberty for all, while violating, revoking or delaying available and effective measures for protecting its own citizens, makes of itself a moral failure, a travesty of honest and faithful governance, by its hypocrisy, before Biblical standards and demands for establishing and maintaining just laws protecting everyone — for the good of all. Withdrawing or denying funding that should be allocated and spent willingly for our health and well being, in this the most wealthy nation in the world, while falsely implying such measures are for somehow improving of EPA’s effectiveness, is pure hypocrisy. The actual purpose is clear: saving and increasing the wealth of the wealthy at the expense of the powerless. Such so-called “governing” is contemptible and must be condemned rather than rewarded. Rev. Dr. Gregory Skiba