My Liberal Agenda

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https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/11/07/my-liberal-agenda/

My Liberal Agenda
November 7, 2017 / John Pavlovitz


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My “Liberal Agenda:”

My Liberal Agenda, is thousands of people not being murdered each year in America—and professed Christians not worshiping the guns used to kill them.

My Liberal Agenda, is supposed religious Republican politicians getting out of bed with the NRA and realizing that their expression of “thoughts and prayers” when followed with complete inaction—may as well be bullets for the next mass shooting.

My Liberal Agenda, is that mentally ill people and criminals not have access to handguns—and asking this President and these Republican leaders why they recently removed the barriers that made such things difficult.

My Liberal Agenda, is respecting mass shooting victims enough to talk about them while the world actually gives a damn about them—and before they’re soon replaced the next day or the next week by more mass shooting victims we’re told that it’s “too soon” for us to talk about.

My Liberal Agenda, is stopping white American Christians with guns from ignoring the vast, bloody, and growing resume of white American Christians with guns—and artificially magnifying that of Muslims and brown people with guns.

My Liberal Agenda, is condemning the truth-allergic cesspool that is FoxNews and confronting the once-rational adults who now daily drink their toxic Kool-Aid.

My Liberal Agenda, is contending that people fortunate enough to be born in America aren’t more inherently valuable or more deserving of liberty than those who were not born here.

My Liberal Agenda, is asking why, in their rabid defense of the 2nd Amendment—do American gun lovers willfully overlook both the “well-regulated” and “Militia” portions?

My Liberal Agenda, is wondering why these same folks seem far less passionate about the 1st Amendment, when people like me suggest that their guns and their gunlust may actually be the gun problem we have here.

My Liberal Agenda, is asking why America has the highest gun homicide rate of any developed country—and suggesting it has something to do with the NRA’s influence on the gun laws of this country, the number of guns in the system, and the cowboy culture around them.

Yes, and while we’re at it—

My Liberal Agenda, is calling out the celebrity evangelists who’ve completely cast aside their calling, betrayed faith tradition, and discarded their namesake—all for a Supreme Court seat and the favor of a President who bears no resemblance to Jesus.

My Liberal Agenda, is pushing back against Nazis, white supremacists, and racists—whether they’re marching in the streets with torches or marching through the Oval Office and the House with discriminatory legislation.

My Liberal Agenda, is defending athletes of color when they kneel to protest their marginalization by white people by saying that Black Lives Matter—and are met with further marginalization by white people who show that those lives still don’t.

My Liberal Agenda, is exposing a white American Christian Church that passionately cultivates contempt for LGBTQ people, for Muslims, for non-Christians—and wants to escape culpability for the violence this visits upon them.

My Liberal Agenda, is demanding professed pro-life activists have as much regard for life outside of the womb as for life within it—long after it leaves the birth canal.

My Liberal Agenda, is suggesting that God is neither white, nor male, nor American, nor Christian—and that God doesn’t specifically bless America.

My Liberal Agenda, is demanding that no one have to choose between life-saving care—or paying their mortgage.

My Liberal Agenda, is insisting that the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the planet we’re sitting on be protected from degradation—not subjected to it by those of us fortunate enough to be here.

My Liberal Agenda, is diversity, equality, and justice that makes room for more than just white American, Republican, Christians.

Yeah, you know—now that I see it all in black and white like this, I suppose it is dangerous: fewer guns, more barriers to having them, less money for gun lobbyists, Christian politicians and leaders who actually resemble Jesus—and equality for people despite their gender identity, sexual orientation, physical condition, religious tradition, pigmentation, or nation of origin.

I could see how someone could view that as a problem, how it could be threatening.

Yes, I stand here accused of this subversive, dangerous, supposedly America-destroying Liberal Agenda.

And I’m guilty as charged.

[Stuart G]

1. k and r..outstanding list...thank you for posting..