This is in response to Michael Nadeau’s response (July 8) to my letter, “Obituary for America” (July 3).

I thank Nadeau for respecting my First Amendment rights. I do not support any form of discrimination. That includes the type of discrimination that I believe launched Barack Obama on his meteoric rise through academia. It is called affirmative action, without which I doubt the public would have ever heard of him.

Why haven’t his SAT scores been made public, or any of his college transcripts? I posit that it is because he is not the Einstein the lame stream media claim that he is. Why did he never author any papers or treatises of any note while he was editor of the Harvard Law Review?

Other than his questionable feats while in school, what record of accomplishments did he bring with him to the presidency? I am aware of none, because there are none.

As to my distress over the Supreme Court rulings — first I weep for the death of the rule of the letter of the law, as exhibited by Justice John Roberts’ farcical interpretation of the health care law; secondly, by the Court’s misguided involvement in the rite of marriage.

The government has no business telling the public what its conception of marriage should be. The justices have opened the door to all manner of corruptions to what many people regard as a holy sacrament handed down through millennia by God and churches.

William Sullivan, Buckfield