Any human can do hurtful, harmful things.
Any human.
Any human can perform cruel, evil acts.
Any human.
Any human can break a law.
Any human.
But …
no human is illegal.
No human.
No human is garbage.
No human.
And …
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
All humans.
All humans are unique.
All humans.
All humans are precious.
All humans.
All humans deserve respect.
All humans.
All humans deserve dignity.
All humans.
All humans deserve love.
All humans.
Filed under Human Rights, Current Events, Antiracism, United Nations
Shifting population demographics represent the diverse human family which God creates and loves. They are not signs of replacement nor do they threaten civilizational erasure. They invite us to live more fully the life God intends for us. They are a gift.
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights
A Florida state representative wants to eliminate the use of lethal injections as the means of state-sponsored executions. He doesn’t want to do so because he is opposed to the death penalty. Quite the contrary.
His argument seems to be that lethal injections are too sensitive – too humane. He wants to replace lethal injections with the electric chair. And he proposes providing the option of a firing squad.
He only moves in that direction because his preferred method of execution does not appear feasible: “If it were up to me we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it,” Drake said in an article posted by the Florida Current.
“I am so tired of being humane to inhumane people,” he is quoted as saying.
By all means! Who wants to be humane, anyhow?
Of course, if we stop acting in a humane fashion, what does that make us?
See you along the Trail.
Filed under Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Human Rights
Along the Graybeard Trail 