A personal reflection on faith, LGBTQ+ rights, and living together in a free society. From Bible verses to bathrooms, sports, conversion therapy, and kids, this post looks at what it really means to love your neighbor and let adults live their lives.
Tag: democracy
Project 2025, Faith, and Power: A Plain-English Christian Take
Project 2025 isn’t just another policy plan. It’s a blueprint to centralize power, sideline opponents, and impose one faction’s will on the entire country. As a Christian and a citizen, I find this vision both politically dangerous and theologically wrong. Democracy depends on people naming what’s happening and speaking up.
Kimmel, Kirk, and the Chill: Why Pulling a Late-Night Show Is a Bad Sign for Democracy
ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel after he criticized the political spin around Charlie Kirk’s murder. That is not accountability for hate speech—it’s pressure on speech itself. If regulators can lean, affiliates can flinch, and a network will fold, that chill won’t stop at late night.
When One Party Wants It All: Why Shutting Out Democrats Is Anti-Democracy
Donald Trump’s call to “not deal with Democrats” goes beyond tough politics — it challenges the very idea of democracy. If we accept that one party should rule while the other is silenced, we’ve abandoned what makes this country a democracy. Here’s why that matters, and why respecting opposition is essential to keeping our system alive.
Charlie Kirk’s Death, Trump’s Reaction, and What We Should Really Be Talking About
Charlie Kirk’s shooting is tragic — not just because of who he was, but because it highlights the hate and violence tearing this country apart. We don’t need more blame games or partisan finger-pointing. We need compassion, sensible gun laws, and the courage to reject political violence no matter where it comes from.
Do We Still Trust Science? A Look at Politics, Public Health, and the Future
This post explores how trust in science has eroded in America, from vaccines to climate change, and how politics has fueled misinformation. Drawing on history, personal stories, and global comparisons, it argues that ignoring evidence doesn’t just weaken us at home—it undermines our place in the world and endangers our future.
Department of War or Department of Defense? The America We Choose Trump’s rebranding of the Pentagon as the “Department of War” and his threats against Chicago and Baltimore aren’t just rhetoric—they’re a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism. Crime must be addressed, but turning troops on our own cities is not the answer. Americans must choose: do we want a country that protects its people, or one that wages war against them?
Trump’s rebranding of the Pentagon as the “Department of War” and his threats against Chicago and Baltimore aren’t just rhetoric—they’re a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism. Crime must be addressed, but turning troops on our own cities is not the answer. Americans must choose: do we want a country that protects its people, or one that wages war against them?
Trump’s “You’re Fired” Presidency: How Chaos and Loyalty Tests Are Reshaping Our Government A record-breaking pattern of firings, forced resignations, and loyalty tests shows how Trump is reshaping government into his own image — and why it matters for democracy.
Donald Trump has fired more top officials and gutted more agencies than any modern president. This post explores the record-breaking chaos of his first and second terms, the loyalty tests that turned government into a personal court, and why these actions threaten American democracy itself.
It Hit Me Today: It Can Happen Here
I used to think it was dramatic to worry about dictatorship. But today it hit me: our safeguards are cracking, and the warning signs are here. Once fascism takes root, history shows it’s almost never stopped early. We need to start paying attention before it’s too late.
Erasing ‘Woke’ Isn’t Leadership — It’s Authoritarianism
Trump’s push to “get rid of woke” isn’t about a buzzword—it’s about controlling which histories and which people count. From pressuring museums to sanitize slavery to treating dissent as pathology, that’s authority talking, not democracy. We need the full, uncomfortable truth—and space to disagree—because erasing it endangers disabled people, Black Americans, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, women, and ultimately all of us.
Notes from the edge of the system 