Just like every parent, Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned a better world for his children, especially when he said. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. King proclaimed that truth
from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama.
As God is the author of Justice, His character demands not only that He
be a Just God, but that His people characterize His loving justice and integrate
it into their lives. This is family
restoration.
That means that as Christian scholars and lawyers we will do things
like protect people from having their wealth destroyed or denied from racial
injustice, as happened in the Tulsa
Race Massacre. This is why we have
written Empowering
Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre, published by the
Tulsa Law Review.
Justice also means we will do things like protect vulnerable
babies from death by abortion because they are a racial minority. Calling
out the professionals who stand by and allow that injustice to continue is part
of that protection. This is why I have
written The
Intersectionality of Race and Class in Bioethics, published by Regent
Law’s Journal of Global Justice and
Public Policy, calling upon bioethicists to stand against racial injustice by summoning their
profession toward protection against that evil, rather than silently standing by endorsing abortion to the incredible harm of
all babies, particularly to black babies in tremendously disproportionate numbers.
Family restoration is possible when God’s people stand for
justice. May today remind us to do so
out of our love for God and His people.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied
in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter
from the Birmingham Jail
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