Processing The World Morning

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - Preamble of the Constitution

I've been thinking about the function of government, I'm just having a processing-the-world morning. The function of government is to serve the people, right? Government cares about public safety and welfare, basically. 

(And stuff like the abortion topic is difficult, because the welfare of baby AND mother are entitled to that general welfare, and the clashing goals of those two things is really hard for my mind to sort. I've had to use aborting medication for two different super serious miscarriages, and I'm not sure what would have happened without that medication, and that's really scary for me looking into the future for me and my family).

I think, that is, the other thing I'm thinking about... When it comes to Christian nationalism, it's important to be wary, because govermrent shouldn't be influencing our ideas. The government is not a teacher, it's not for mind control, it shouldn't decide our religious affiliation. We get to choose which church to go to, and which ideas to adhere too, and we're lucky that our founding fathers decided that we could go to church wherever we wanted, because they'd just come from England where rulers and the church did a lot of currupt stuff together. 

And, not every founding father was a straight up Christian, but they were a group of people who agreed we needed to stop evil, and ensure people were safe, and had the ability to be fed, sheltered, clothed... As much as our justice system is flawed and slow and in need of improvement, they DO put bad guys away and protect innocent people. And if they don't, the people get to vote in judges in, and police chiefs, and politicians, etc.

How lucky are we for that?

"Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." - John 13:35

And the founding fathers put together the government with faith, faith that the church would do its work by example, by simply loving one another. The founding fathers handed us a lot of control over our lives, (and we've been given more choices over time, blessedly), they'd learned that control is not, has never been, and will never be the answer. 

The preamble of the constitution explains the function of government, and so, if we're going to take ability a women's ability to choose whether she has to endure the burden of a child (an incredibly, outrageously, unfair advantage every man in the United States has over women), then our work is in promotion of the welfare of women everywhere, and I have to punctuate again before I end my processing-the-world-essay, that none of this should be about control, it should be about a women's choice over her life.

It is necessary that a woman be given choices, our country will be destroyed if we limit her.

it's okay,

JJ