An honest wish...
Dallas, TX - March for 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, killed by police on April 29, 2017. Somedays, I wish I didn’t care. I wish it didn’t disturb me so deeply to see many of the people I grew up with – who loved me into who I am – blatantly clinging to their love of (worship of?) the demagogue currently occupying the presidency. I wish they didn’t see him as their savior or try to justify his words and actions with tired references to flawed biblical characters like King David. I wish they would stop touting him as a Christian example because of a willful ignorance of seeing anything other than abortion as a pro-life issue. I wish they would care about the lives of children who have been born as much as they care about protecting the lives of those who have not. I wish they would take the very brief moment to educate themselves enough to know that abortion rates historically have gone down under democratic administrations – not because they are shutting down abortion c...