Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 16, 2009

Alexis Hutchinson, an Army Specialist and, more importantly, the single mother of an 11-month-old boy, is presently being detained in anticipation of a court martial for failing to deploy to Afghanistan. She was unable to make suitable arrangements to care for her son. When Hutchinson was arrested, her child was temporarily placed in the custody of Child Protective Services.

Compounding this outrage is the fact that the Army had promised Hutchinson sufficient time to make proper arrangements.

The neglected last verse of our National Anthem refers to the duty of ?free men? to stand ?between their loved homes and the war?s desolation?.?

For those who would be free men, protecting our homes and families from both foreign aggressors and the domestic enemies who preside over the warfare state is a solemn and sacred responsibility. Yet we have become the kind of country that permits the government to send women ? including mothers ? off to war.

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