Apology for language, but not for saying what is right

Submitted by Troy Bray
Posted 6/2/22

Dear Editor,

There has been a lot about me in the paper, but not a lot of people have heard from me, and I would like to correct that. 

Yes, I wrote an email that contained some language …

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Apology for language, but not for saying what is right

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Dear Editor,

There has been a lot about me in the paper, but not a lot of people have heard from me, and I would like to correct that. 

Yes, I wrote an email that contained some language that is inappropriate. I have apologized for that, not only to the recipient of the email, but to those who have had to deal with the fallout from it. It is my firm belief that public apologies are not sincere, and I won’t make an insincere apology. Further, the assertion by this paper that “nothing happened” to me as a result is false. I assure you that I have faced disciplinary actions over it. Just because they haven’t been public, does not mean they didn’t happen. I also held a meeting, at my own expense, to allow any of my constituents to express their displeasure with me.

There is a lot more to the story, though. The email was a complaint about the chairwoman of a Senate committee using unethical and devious methods to kill a bill which would have ended the governor’s authority to keep the state under lockdown (actually private businesses, the ones that line Bent Street, for example). Her actions that day led to another year of an unnecessary and unconstitutional destruction of my friends’ and neighbors’ businesses. Those people who faced financial ruin, who were denied their right to practice their religion, and were forced into isolation or coerced into taking a shot they didn’t want to have Sen. Nethercott to blame. I have never been good at standing by quietly while others are having their lives destroyed, and I don’t plan on starting.

As St. Thomas Aquinas said, “If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”

We live in the best state, in the greatest country in the world. And our Legislature is doing its darndest to destroy it. I cannot, and will not stand silently by while they achieve, through lack of opposition, their goal.

I have made two solemn oaths in my life. One to protect and defend the Constitution, the other to protect those weaker than me. I take both very seriously, and will keep those oaths, even if my death is the price I have to pay. Less than that is a small price.

I apologize for the language I used, but I will not apologize for standing up for what I know in my heart is right.

Troy Bray

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