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quick word about this nonsense @tedcruz is up on: of course prisoners should be able to vote. they're wards of the state. their stake in how government is run is actually greater than most people's.
there are many reasons why "don't let people vote if they're in jail" is 1) an abominable position before God, Who will demand an accounting from those who withhold mercy, and 2) logically unsustainable, but let's start here:
~do you honestly think the jails hold everybody who got up to some evil shit?~ Be real. The jails hold people who couldn't afford to beat the rap, and are, in the main, an extension of slavery
(Way smarter people than me have put in the work on documenting this:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org
et al)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org
et al)
"OK," say the people who want to deny the vote even to people who've served their time. "But with convicts, we know they're guilty." No, we don't know that at all, actually! https://www.innocenceproject.org
Mind you, I think "people who've committed crimes shouldn't have a vote" is a morally incoherent position anyway, but before we even get to that argument, there's too much noise in the signal to go denying anybody the vote
@tedcruz should say what he means: he doesn't think that the Apostle Paul, as a prisoner of the state, had any rights at all. Jesus Christ, too, was a criminal under the laws of Rome.
The State got to do what it wanted with Him, and a big part of His ministry concerns why that's messed up, and why we need to do better.
So don't let any nominal Christian go feeding you any hogwash about prisoners not having rights. The difference between any prisoner and me is only one of degree, and I put that on God. Empty the prisons and then we'll talk. /thread
