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No! Japanese Interment Can Never be Used as Precedent for Any Policy

The other day the Kelly File was on, and Megyn was interviewing President-Elect Donald Trump supporter former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie on the legality of registration for immigrants from Muslim countries. He then mentioned Iran as an example of this being done in the past, along with the Japanese during World War II. When pressed on the morality of Japanese Internment, Higbie did some fancy word dancing saying, There is precedent for it, and I’m not saying I agree with it…Look the President needs to protect America first, and if that means having people that are not protected under our constitution have some sort of registry so we can understand, until we can identify the true threat and where its coming from, I support it. I think Higbie is dead wrong and off his rocker. Japanese Internment was nothing short of unjustified incarceration of multitudes of innocent people. It is a moral outrage. The only precedent it makes is what not to do ! It would be a mistake for President Ele

My thoughts for this 2016 Election Day

Dear Christian friends, I pray that things have been well. This Election Day marks the end of long process which in my humble opinion brought out the worst in a good many folks, and what a relief it is to know the election season has passed. I hope that you did indeed vote today, plan on voting, or have already voted early. Voting is certainly a civic calling that Christians in the United States ought never pass up. God has set things up in such a way that we are living right here and right now in this epoch (Acts 17:26), and it just so happens to be in a land where citizens are called upon to vote for their leaders. We are given a voice, and we can speak out at the polls. We do have a say in the appointment of our leaders, the lawmakers who will set the laws that govern this nation. That is a good thing. Law defines the way we as a people will view right and wrong. Our laws can then promote the common good. Troubles do come when we declare something that is wrong to be right