The truth is sitting in plain sight. That a child was not protected. that many children were not protected, and the people sworn to guard them were busy protecting themselves We live in a culture that threatens the safety of young girls like a variable in some political equation

The measure of a country is in how fiercely it protects the smallest and softest lives within it. A child is sacred. And a child deserves a world that is safe enough for them to grow inside of without fear of being hunted by those who have more power than decency.

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If what passes for Christianity these days is cruelty wrapped in scripture and branded on the Necks of children, then you can keep heaven, I'll take a bar stool and a half-lit dive bar with some writers and protesters, drag queens, and lost causes. At least they know how to live.

I was raised to believe in the decency of people. to help when you can, to speak up when it's hard, to leave things better than you found them. That's liberalism. That's not weakness. It's strength tethered to conscience.

I am a liberal, a southern liberal, and I'm proud of it.
And if that offends you, well, there's a little red hat in a rage fueled echo chamber just down the street for you. I'll be right here with the poets and the teachers and the fighters,

and we're just getting started.

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