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quick word about this nonsense @tedcruz is up on: of course prisoners should be able to vote. they& #39;re wards of the state. their stake in how government is run is actually greater than most people& #39;s.
there are many reasons why "don& #39;t let people vote if they& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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.nytimes.com/interacti... href=" https://www.prisonpolicy.org"> https://www.prisonpolicy.org
et al)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html
et al)
"OK," say the people who want to deny the vote even to people who& #39;ve served their time. "But with convicts, we know they& #39;re guilty." No, we don& #39;t know that at all, actually! https://www.innocenceproject.org"> https://www.innocenceproject.org
Mind you, I think "people who& #39;ve committed crimes shouldn& #39;t have a vote" is a morally incoherent position anyway, but before we even get to that argument, there& #39;s too much noise in the signal to go denying anybody the vote
@tedcruz should say what he means: he doesn& #39;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& #39;s messed up, and why we need to do better.
