Monday, February 17 th , was a National Day of Protest. All across the country, people gathered to protest what the Trump administration is doing to America. I was one of those people. My wife and I showed up downtown Fort Myers by the courthouse about 10 minutes before noon and the rally was supposed to start at noon. At first, about 50 people were standing there with us but I would say by 12:30 there were maybe 200 people. I was a little disappointed with the turnout but this is Southwest Florida which is very red. As I was standing with the crowd, I took note of the people that were standing with us, most were White senior citizens such as myself. There were a handful of Blacks and a few Hispanics. Considering that it was President’s Day and the schools were closed there were very few young people. That disappointed me because it is their future and the young people have so much to lose. Growing up in the middle of the Vietnam War and seeing the protest back then, maybe we w...
I will tell you that I am no Christian, but I will tell you that I was raised in a Christian household. I was baptized, went to Sunday School, was Confirmed, and attended church into adulthood. Because of that upbringing, I still think about the morals I learned from that religious upbringing. To this day, I judge right and wrong by what I learned in that church. There has been a little bit of a dispute between The Pope of the Catholic Church, the Trump administration, the deportations, and Catholic convert Vance and his use of the concept from the medieval Catholic theology known in Latin as “Ordo Amoris”. I guess Vance has said the concept delineates a hierarchy of care – to family first, followed by neighbor, community, fellow citizen, and lastly those elsewhere. Being raised a Protestant I had never heard of it but then the Lutheran Church has no medieval saint. I searched on the web and asked if “Ordo Amoris” was in the Bible and the short answer would be “no”. It i...