Sure hope Caligula never turns is perverted love upon me

“Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless” (Exodus 22.21-24)

Sure hope Caligula never turns his love upon me. He loves them, he says—those dreamers. Yet, though they are by every conceivable measure young Americans—innocent and law-abiding… unlike him—he intends to send them to a country they have never known and that has never claimed them. He truly has made them young men and women without a country. Martyrs every one of them.

Sensing, last week, what the mad man was about to do, I posted the passage above to the just scripture page of this sight and asked questions for the reader to consider. Make no mistake about it: removing the protections found in DACA is a vexation of “strangers.” These oppressed dreamers will call out to God—however well-known or unknown he may be to them. And God will see their vexations and hear their plea. Such obscenities as this will, absolutely will bring the condemnation of God upon the nation that elected that man.

For, you see, Caligula’s obscenities pale in comparison to the monstrosity that is those who elected him—including, shamefully, white evangelical (non)Christians. For a little more than a century the federal government has been protector, however imperfectly, to vulnerable peoples who local and state majorities always oppressively scapegoat with impunity. After national defense, this is the most important role of the federal government—to stand against base, provincial, and prejudiced local majorities. This is Republicans’ real reason for hating a strong federal government—it keeps them, as it ought, from acting upon their base, selfish, fearful, and prejudiced inclinations—in America most often expressed through racism, though more recently LGBT have become a favorite target of the mob. Under resurgent Republican influences, the electorate has elected a monstrosity who, far from checking the public’s demons, is giving traction to all that is monstrous. What a perversion!

In his letter written from a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr reminded us,
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“There are two types of laws: just and unjust…. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’
 
“Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of Harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”
 
In announcing the decision, Caligula’s little puppet, leader of the ‘Injustice Department,’ spoke of “law.” He declared that “we are a nation of laws.” Yes, indeed. Ol’ Joe Arpaio can attest to the kind of law intended by the troop of rascals currently in power.

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,
   and that write grievousness which they have
​           prescribed;
To turn aside the needy from judgment,
    and to take away the right from the poor of my people,
that widows may be their prey,
    and that they may rob the fatherless!
And what will ye do in the day of visitation,
    and in the desolation which shall come from far? 
to whom will ye flee for help?
    and where will ye leave your glory?
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,
    and they shall fall under the slain” (Isaiah 10.1-4).