Today I witnessed a miscarriage of justice. The Dallas City Council and Mayor voted 13 to 1 to pass the Reproductive Rights Resolution, which would effectively "decriminalize" abortion by deprioritizing abortion-related investigations, and precluding city resources from being used towards abortion related investigations, prosecutions. City Councilman Adam McGough is the only one who voted against…
upside down justice
Today the Dallas City Council Quality of Life, Arts, & Culture Committee held a meeting to discuss just one agenda item: "Consideration of protection of reproduction rights for Dallas residents." More specifically, they met to discuss the Dallas version of the "GRACE Act." In case you're wondering what "GRACE" stands for in this instance, it's…
an open letter to texas legislators about state-protected murder
There were 1,322 murders in Texas in 2018. Every murder is a tragedy. Under certain conditions even a single murder can throw an entire community, indeed an entire nation into turmoil. In Texas, just as in other states, we have laws on the books and law enforcement organizations in place constantly working to prevent murder,…
a servant of Christ 