Some Blood Has Always Been Unwelcome Here – OpEd

(UCA News) -- There is a particular kind of cruelty that arrives dressed as caution. It does not announce itself. It shows up in official language, in policy documents, and in the measured tones of government lawyers before a court. It says, “We are only trying to protect people.” And sometimes that is true.

But sometimes protection is just the polite word for something older and less defensible — the quiet, practiced decision that certain lives matter less, that certain people’s offerings are unwelcome...