Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 5, 2011

Terry Jones calls himself a Christian pastor. He calls his Florida-based group the Dove World Outreach Center. Yet he seems more preoccupied with Islam than with the gospel of Jesus Christ. He likewise appears more interested in provoking Muslims to sin than in teaching them about salvation.

Following Jones?s most recent publicity stunt, which involved the burning of a Koran, protests erupted in Afghanistan. With the help of professional agitators, those protests were transformed into murderous riots. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. occupation forces in Afghanistan ( and likely future head of the CIA) , complained that Jones?s actions put U.S. troops at risk.

This led some politicians ? including Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to suggest that Jones should be subject to official punishment of some kind. Graham in particular believes that the rights of U.S. citizens should be curtailed in order to protect soldiers during wartime. Those are the priorities of a military junta, not a constitutional republic.

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