Wednesday, November 21, 2007

An Issue of Social Justice

The other morning as I was getting ready for Church, this thought popped into my head so I stopped what I was doing and scribbled it down in my journal, thought I'd share it here:

How do we know if an issue, political or otherwise, is an issue of social justice? Look at the issue and ask the following question: Does this issue have the potential to affect the most vulnerable among us--the poor, the sick, the very young, the very old, and the outsiders-differently than it will affect the rest of us? If the answer to this question is yes then that issue is an issue of social justice. When beheld in this light, I submit that there are no issues that are not social justice issues.

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