Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 24, 2009

In the Book of Matthew we read Jesus? admonition to feed the hungry as if we were serving Christ Himself.

British legal scholar William Blackstone, who greatly influenced our Founding Fathers, insisted that human laws had to be in harmony with God?s law in order to be valid.

Thus no government has the authority to forbid people to feed the hungry.

Yet police in Orlando, Florida recently arrested 22-year-old Eric Montanez for feeding a group of several dozen homeless people in a public park. By doing so, Montanez violated an ordinance forbidding people to feed ?large groups? in a specified number of public locations.

Orlando police actually sent undercover officers to Montanez?s gathering, and collected ?evidence? in the form of a bowl of stew.

Montanez remains commendably defiant. "The law itself should be illegal. Feeding people should not be criminalized,? he insists. Those who take the Bible seriously would find it difficult to disagree.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.