It breaks my heart to witness America taking incremental steps towards the same abyss that led to the deaths of 500,000 Ethiopians a few years after I was born. I love America precisely because of the liberties she stands for and the rights of her people that are enshrined in the Constitution. Every day, these freedoms too many of us take for granted are being chipped away by politicians, pundits and technocrats who view our inalienable rights as optional privileges that can be snatched away using security as a means of nullifying our liberties.
This is nothing new, Pharisees during biblical times used to oppress the masses by weaponizing laws to benefit themselves and impoverish the people. This leads to the second aspect of how my faith informs my views of governance. People ask all the time “what would Jesus do”, the answer is simple, seek goodness over evil, speak up against consolidated power and give voice to “the least among us”. In other words, He chose love as his moral compass and I am going to do the same if I am elected...continued...
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