March 28, 2023 – Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Here we are again.
I have been thinking a lot lately about certain “gay conservatives” on the bird app and elsewhere who bend over backwards to defend the “parental rights” bills, which are really just thinly disguised homophobia. I suppose it’s a manifestation of “best little boy in the world” syndrome, which is often a thing among gay men – attempting to prove their worth and purge the sickness by being as perfectly compliant as possible. But the reality is that they will not be exempt from the backsliding of our rights simply because they collaborated with the Republicans.
The same is true of gun violence. No one is exempt from the effects of this evil. These weapons of war can appear anywhere on American streets and in our schools. The shooters do not care whether the dead child’s parents are Republicans or Democrats. Folks, the gun lobby is not your friend. Voting with the gun lobby cannot protect you. Voting with the gun lobby cannot protect your child. You are not exempt from the carnage – this ultimate violation of our human rights – simply because you collaborated with the gun lobby. The gun lobby are modern-day priests of Molech, stoking fear and capitalizing upon it, building an altar of profit upon which to sacrifice our children.
The only thing that voting with the gun lobby does is put more weapons of mass carnage into society. It makes us sicker. And Republicans, explicitly, are “not gonna fix it.”
But we must fix it. We shall not, must not, allow them to press down upon our brow a crown of ammunition and crucify mankind upon a cross of AR-15s. We must choose live babies over dead babies. Christians must take up the clear teaching of Scripture and beat swords into plowshares. Until this happens, we are all in danger. The gun lobby delenda est.
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