Recently a message appeared in this paper from the Chair of the Cook County School Board stating their support for Black Lives Matter. It is one thing to oppose racism, bullying, mistreatment of other people, any people, and quite another to support an organization founded by avowed Marxists, Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza & Patricia Kahn-Cullors who promote anarchy, violence and hatred, complete government control.
Black Lives Matter is definitely political. Some of their slogans are frightening and hateful, and foment the lawless, destructive behavior we have witnessed in the streets of cities in our country, where elected leaders; governors, mayors, commissioners and city councilors are voting to defund and disband the police. What has been the result? Lawless behavior: murder, rape, theft, vandalism, etc. increasing in all of these cities.
Government is instituted by God for the protection of the citizenry. Morality cannot be legislated; therefore, we have laws against crime, and who protects the citizens from criminals? The Police! The men and women in blue; our State Patrol Officers; our National Guard. We should be so very thankful for every honest, dedicated law enforcement officer who puts their life on the line every day to protect law-abiding citizens from criminals who want to harm or kill them, want to steal and destroy, who traffic in life-threatening drugs, who drive under the influence on our roads and highways, who traffic the innocent, and the list goes on…
We need to hear from our school board, and the administrators of their support of our law enforcers and their families, many of whom work or attend there. They need to be politically neutral, and to declare All lives Matter: “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in God’s sight.” God so loved the World (Every person in it) that He gave Jesus Christ, His sinless Son to die in our place for our sins, that if we repent and believe on Jesus as our personal Savior, we will inherit eternal life and live with Him in Heaven someday. This is what God tells us in His Word, the Bible.
Jesus is the only answer for our sinful, hurting world. He alone can change hearts, which changes marriages, homes, neighborhoods, communities and nations.
ALL LIVES MATTER to GOD WHO CREATED EACH OF THEM.
Rae M. Piepho, Lutsen
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