Morning Briefing
For July 16, 2013
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1. An Ecumenical Hope Post Zimmerman Trial
The
death of Trayvon Martin and the Zimmerman trial show there are deep
wounds and grievances in this country and too many people who profit
from fanning the flames. Too many in the white community see violence in
the black community and think, “That’s their problem. Blacks killing
blacks, we’ll let them figure it out.” But it is not their problem. It
is all of our problem. No one wants to be a victim of crime. Besides,
much of the crime is not related to race, but related truly to income
and only superficially related to skin color. This is a problem that
will continue to fester unless there is more dialogue. White and black
America more and more speak in different language and, more and more,
upper income white America speaks in a language completely different
from the poor and middle class regardless of race.
From
my vantage point, the best dialogue to transcend the divide is that of
the saving Gospel that heals all wounds. Much of the societal decay we
have now stems from decades of government trying and failing to feed the
body with liberals trying and failing to feed the soul. There is,
however, only one lasting food the soul can truly digest and only God
can provide it. We will continue to have these problems unless
evangelical, Bible believing churches, start building lasting
relationships across racial lines in their own communities. There won’t
be uniform doctrine, but there is one Jesus who churches can share — the
Jesus who is, not the Jesus some create.
Want to
see evangelical, Bible believers together at a rally regardless of race?
Go to a pro-life rally. More and more white pastors have convinced
their black brethren that abortion is a blight on the black community.
They are right. The number of abortions in the black community is
astronomical.
Sadly,
when black preachers rally against violence in their own community, too
often the rallies consist of just the black preachers and a few white
preachers sprinkled about. All too typically, these white preachers are
the social justice liberals who are more interested in the social gospel
and not the actual Gospel.
This has been an ecumenical failure among Bible believing, evangelical churches. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Associated Press Stands with Late Term Abortion, Then Gets Coy
On late
Friday night, Central Daylight Time, the state of Texas, through its
elected representatives, sent to Governor Rick Perry for signature a law
placing Texas’s abortion policy to the left of Sweden’s and France’s.
This was done after a rent-a-mob (in fairness, partially populated by
Austinites still surprised they live in Texas) managed to postpone this
event by screaming and jeering at the elected representatives once, and
then coming back the next time with feces, urine, and bricks, in the
event that someone in Texas thought Austinites and rent-a-mob lefties
should be allowed to participate in civil discourse.
It was,
needless to say, an emotionally charged moment. Pro-lifers thrilled to
successfully passing a law requiring that abortion facilities be at
least as clean as veterinary facilities, requiring abortionists to have
the same admitting privileges most doctors get routinely, and
eliminating the murder of viable in-utero children except in the
always-exploited cases of life, health, or life-endangering (to the
child) deformity. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Reid’s place in Senate history: a nuclear black chapter?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can dish it out, but he can’t take it.
Harry
Reid was Senate Democratic Whip when George W. Bush became president.
Under him, the Senate Democrats mounted an unprecedented filibuster
campaign against Bush’s judicial nominees. According to The Heritage
Foundation’s Todd Gaziano, the average number of days a Court of Appeals
nominee waited for final Senate action grew from 39 during the Reagan
Presidency, 95 during the George H. W. Bush Presidency, and 115 during
the Clinton Presidency to 400 during the first 22 months of the second
Bush presidency.
The
Democrats’ unprecedented delays imposed upon Bush’s judicial nominees
resulted in talk of using the nuclear option to end the Democrats’
filibusters. The nuclear option is shorthand for changing the Senate
rules so that presidential nominations would no longer be subject to
filibuster — meaning they could be approved with just 51 votes, as
opposed to the usual 60. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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