Originally published at crisis magazine
I’ve spent decades—starting long before I founded the Vulnerable People Project—working for apostolates that had me talking to anyone who would listen about the vulnerable and their need for the support of Americans like you and me. We who find ourselves in positions of relative privilege and power owe it to our vulnerable brothers and sisters to defend their dignity when they find themselves powerless and under threat.
But after all these years, I’ve come to a sad conclusion: the bleeding-heart Christian social justice Left and the bold, assertive Christian Right are both willing to vigorously defend the vulnerable only when it doesn’t threaten their first-world privileges. Each side champions the vulnerable, but their fervor comes in waves, and it always stops short when the demands of justice come close to the feet of their most cherished idols.
I have been fighting for legal protection for the child in the womb for over 30 years. I have also been a vocal advocate for noncombatants in war zones, criticizing not only the United States—my article “Flying Into the Abyss on John Brennan’s Drone” being a prime example—but also Russia, and, most recently, Israel for their indiscriminate violence and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Orthodox.
