It’s Saturday, the end of the week for most of us. Let’s see, what happened this week that gives us pause about what rights we have on this 250th year being so touted. Well, first there’s he continued gutting of the voting rights act with a decision by Justice Alito, whose grandparents would have been barred had the ruling classes prevailed. But he’s white now, so it doesn’t matter.
Then there’s the 5th Circuit Appeals Court prohibiting the shipment of mifepristone for terminating early pregnancies because Louisiana wants to control women and their fertility. Next, they’ll be stopping women at state lines who seek to exercise any kind of reproductive choice. Handmaid’s Tale, where are you?
And since we want to keep America for Americans, we literally cage migrant chidden and adults like they’re in the zoo. We don’t shoot them here, of course, we send them back to wherever --- Afghanistan, Ukraine, Nicaragua -- where someone else will do the killing for us. Have a nice weekend.
Prayer for the Day
O God, we often live as if we do not need you,
Pretending that life is what we make it;
In those exceptional moments when we realize our sins,
We pause for a moment of contrition and then go on.
Disturb us in our complacency so we are awakened,
Enabling us to transform our Nation’s direction.
In the name of the One who teaches us a new way to live,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen
Thoughts for the Day
The Voting Rights Act is — or, now more accurately, was— ‘one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history.’ It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality.
Justice Elena Kagan, dissenting in Calais v. Louisiana
O Lord, do ot rebuke me in your anger,
Or discipline me in your wrath.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing,
Heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.
My soul is struck with terror, while you, O Lord, how long?
Psalm 6: 1-3