If you reflexively defend the actions of the state over against the citizen, you are not a conservative nor a liberal. You are an authoritarian who loves power when it is displayed against those you deem unworthy of protection
#BreonnaTaylor
Unworthy perhaps because of their physical location (the womb), or their affiliations, or their class, sex, ethnicity, or "race". #ProLife #BreonnaTaylor
True liberalism defends freedom of conscience & acts that flow from conscience in both the private & public domain. It defends religious liberty even when it disagrees with the religion
True conservatism defends the right of the citizen to be secure in his home & personal effects especially when confronted by state power.
True Christianity LAMENTS death, particularly undeserved, unjustifiable death even when it is deemed "lawful". Lawful doesn't mean just. Jim Crow was lawful. Chattel slavery was lawful. Indian removal was "lawful". Antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany were lawfulul
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