Letter: Our nation’s values include a diversity of opinion

It was suggested in a recent letter to The Public Forum that “conservatives” know diversity is not our (the U.S.’s) strength. It was then suggested that our strength is in our shared values.Too often, what a person talks about shared values, they mean “their” values. Our shared values are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.The very essence of our constitutional rights of protected speech, right to peacefully assemble and petitioning g