Constitutional Process – a path to great evil.
And constitutional conservatives believe in process
Let me help you rebuild your conscience and your critical thinking skills, the ones government deliberately weakened. Just as they once weakened mine.
This is especially true for constitutional conservatives and Christians engaged in politics. And this is the audience I write this Substack to. But please know that I am writing to your conscience and I hope you still have one. That you are still able to detect right from wrong.
My prayer is that you are able to.
If you are a constitutional conservative or a Christian engaged in politics, by definition, you are someone who believes in process.
What constitutional conservatives and Christians engaged in politics fail to take into consideration is the high cost of process. And this is the great evil they engage in, without even knowing or considering this evil. In fact, they have so lost their thinking skills, they now think evil is good. As in:
Mark, just look at what might happen with Roe! It might be reversed demonstrating the Constitutional process does work!
When it comes to building a bridge, or a home, or developing land, designing a ship, plane, nuclear power plant, process makes sense. After all, it is hard to build a bridge overnight.
But process when it comes to natural rights, unalienable rights? This cost is exceedingly high, way too high.
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For instance, a pastor named Tony Spell was arrested during the Covid-19 nonsense in April 2020 for violating a “restriction” placed on churches by Louisiana’s maniac governor, John Bel Edwards. Now, whether or not this maniac governor had any authority is meaningless in this discussion because in the end, Pastor Spell and most of Louisiana “believed” he did. And now, well-meaning Pastor Spell is heralded as a hero because he was willing to defy this order and hold church.
But…
Pastor Spell had to suffer under the weight of government control for 2 years and 1 month because of this belief in constitutional process. His dignity and freedom were taken from him and he was forced to wear an ankle monitor for these 2+ years.
For 760 days, he wore this reminder of process.
And the cost of this Constitutional process was high.
Government made him a criminal when all he was exercising was his natural right to freely associate with people he loved and cared for.
And because constitutional conservatives are enamored with constitutional processes, their conscience was not pricked by this atrocity committed against Pastor Spell. Even though it would take 760 days of suffering, it was worth it according to Constitutional conservatives and Christians engaged in politics. Why? Apparently in order to defend and stay submissive to the constitutional process.
Martin Luther King understood the conscience numbing idea of constitutional process when he penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
MLK’s rebuke was not just to Jewish, Christian and other white moderates, but to the ideas these white moderates embraced. Like the idea that it was appropriate to place a timeline on someone’s freedom to protect the Constitutional process and maintain negative peace vs. positive peace that requires justice. And in this case, it was not Pastor Spell who required justice, but Governor John Bel Edwards and the law enforcement personnel who arrested Pastor Spell and put on the ankle monitor.
But sadly, because constitutional conservatives and Christians engaged in politics are so enamored with a silly “belief” they have about a document penned by 39 men 235 years ago, and the processes that came from it, they do not think in terms of justice. Sure they might whine about the governor, but will nevertheless take conscience soothing comfort that the process worked and Pastor Spell only had to suffer for 720 years.
Now think about your commitment to constitutional process when applied to a baby in the womb of a mother who is Constitutionally permitted to murder her unborn baby. Will you have the gall to tell that baby to be patient and let the process work itself out? Seriously, can you see and admit the error in your thinking in this regard? If you cannot, then how are you any different than the physician and mother who will murder the baby as you stand by and watch. At a minimum, you are complicit if you are a constitutional conservative or Christian engaged in politics. For all you had to offer this baby being torn apart was trite:
be patient little baby, there will come a time when you will not be torn limb from limb, scalded, or sucked out of the warmth and protection of the womb.
If this does not prick your conscience, then you may have seared your conscience. If you get angry at me, the messenger, you may have seared your conscience.
But make no mistake about it, if you believe in Constitutional processes, you have blood on your hands.
Like I said, process when it comes to the hard sciences of bridge building, launching rockets, home building, medicine, technology is necessary and generally morally neutral.
Process when applied to human rights, natural rights, unalienable rights is sin and evil. You should never have accepted this idea and if you still do, you should repent and change or be prepared to be harshly judged by history and ultimately, by a Holy God.
You will not like either judgement.
I repented of the sin of Constitutional process which is why I write this warning.
Will you?
Amen. Mark