Doug Newman, writing for The Price of Liberty, on Christian Compassion That Kills:
Many Christians view Bill Clinton as the president from the bowels of hell. While they talk endlessly – and in oh so morally superior tones — about Bubba’s dalliances with an inteern, they are curiously silent about the Drug War-related atrocities that occurred on his – and Attorney General Jackboot Janet’s – watch.
The zeal with which so many Christians promote the Drug War is proof positive that they can be just as politically correct as secular liberals. They do not care about the real world implications of their pet policies. America has a drug crisis and the Only Solution is zero tolerance. The Constitution and the rights it guarantees be damned! Drug War uber alles! If innocent people die, this is collateral damage. These are broken eggs prerequisite to the omelet of a drug free America.
I simply cannot respect any person who believes they have some arrogant Divine Right to prolong another person's physical agony via government force. Medicinal marijuana is not drug abuse – its pain management for many who've reached the limits of their tolerance for conventional medications and therapies. Disagree all you like, but the second you move from disapproval to empowering government force to do your will you're complicit in state-sponsored violence against the ill and the weak. There's nothing in any version of the Bible I've read that makes that acceptable and respectable behavior for those purporting to be Saved.
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