“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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Elections Matter!
Congress has the authority to pass legislation that makes no sense. They have done it many times, and we have had to pay the price.
Congress also has the authority to pass legislation that doesn’t reflect our values, and it has the authority to pass legislation that is offensive to most of us. If the legislation that Congress passes is constitutional, it will pass muster with the courts, because nothing else matters to the courts.
The Student Debt Relief Program
The student debt relief program is a great example. People borrowed money to pay for their college educations, and they agreed to pay it back. After they graduated, they decided that they didn’t want to repay their loans.
That is offensive to most of us. Hardworking people who paid for their college educations and their children’s college educations and people who borrowed money for their college educations and paid it back are angry about it. They should be. The student debt relief program is doubly offensive to hardworking people who never went to college. They are being told that their tax dollars will be used to pay for the college educations of people they don’t even know.
This is How it Happened
People who didn’t want to repay their college loans convinced Congress to support them, and Congress passed legislation to forgive the loans. The programs through which they borrowed the money were government sponsored, so Congress has the authority to forgive those loans. President Biden agreed with Congress, and those loans were forgiven.
What you and I think about the student debt relief program doesn’t matter. Everything Congress did was constitutional. When the president signed the bill, it became law.
People who were hoping that conservative justices on the Supreme Court would intervene to prevent the law from taking effect got a wakeup call, or I hope they got a wakeup call. The courts can’t do anything about laws that pass constitutional muster. The constitutionality of the program is the ONLY thing that matters to the Supreme Court.
Judging by the composition of Congress, most Americans don’t seem to appreciate how much power elected officials have, and they elect people who don’t reflect their values. If we elect people to Congress who don’t share our values, they will do things in Congress that don’t reflect our values. If the president doesn’t share our values, either, whatever Congress does can become law. If those laws are constitutional, they will take effect and remain in effect unless the laws are changed.
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was overturned recently, because it did not pass constitutional muster. It was law made by the Supreme Court. According to the Constitution, the Supreme Court can’t make law. It can only deal with the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress.
Even though Roe v. Wade was in effect for almost 50 years, it never was constitutional. The Supreme Court was packed with justices who supported abortion on demand despite its being unconstitutional. Roe v. Wade wasn’t overturned until President Trump appointed 3 Supreme Court justices. When they took their seats on the court, they applied strict constitutional tests to the case. President Trump’s election and his determination to do what he said he would do is the only reason Roe v. Wade was overturned.
A few days ago, President Biden said that if Democrats hold the House and Senate in the mid-term election and pass abortion legislation, he will sign it into law. That, my friends, is all it will take to make abortion on demand legal again in the United States, except this time it will pass constitutional muster.
We can stop that from happening if we elect the right people, but if we don’t elect the right people, abortion on demand will take effect again. This time, though, the Supreme Court won’t be able to do anything about it.
Elections Matter!
Electing the wrong people results in bad legislation that goes against everything we believe in. If the legislation that is passed is constitutional, it will become law and remain law until new laws are passed to change it. That may never happen, or it may take decades to solve the problem.
If you don’t like abortion on demand, student debt relief, and a host of other things that Democrats have thrust upon us, things like open borders and defunding police, don’t vote for Democrats. It’s as simple as that.
If you vote for Democrats hoping that they will overcome party pressure and do the right thing, you are making a tragic mistake. Most of them will bend to party pressure and vote the party line. That’s what the evidence tells us.
The same is true for Republicans. Don’t vote for Republicans who don’t represent your values and beliefs, either. They will reflect their values in Congress, not yours.
Again, elections matter!
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
