When the government allows those with wealth to wield their money as a weapon, controlling the economy, influencing laws, and dictating policies, it abandons the foundational principles of the Constitution. This includes denying healthcare as a basic human right (a standard embraced by most Western nations) and funneling federal funds into religious schools that preach the superiority of their God over others’. Such actions betray the intent of the framers of the Constitution.
Denying Healthcare as a Basic Human Right
Hear this from the mountaintop. When a government permits wealth to be wielded like a cudgel, when money dominates the economy, bends laws, and purchases policy, this nation has drifted from its founding promise. A republic cannot endure when gold is treated as virtue and suffering is dismissed. That is not governance. That is abandonment.
This betrayal shows in two places: the refusal to recognize healthcare as a basic human right, and the misuse of public funds to elevate institutions that preach exclusion. These are moral failures dressed up as tradition.
Denying healthcare as a basic human right: patience is not infinite. A government watching families choose between medicine and rent is complicit. Inequality has names: sharecroppers, poor communities, Black families, Native Americans. Their turn never came. Survival is not charity. When a government denies healthcare, it decides whose lives matter.
Equality under the law has no religious escape hatch: welcoming new citizens demands equal treatment. There is no religious exemption for discrimination or hatred. Equality before the law is not optional. Public money must not fund superiority doctrines.
This is a call. Tear out corruption that favors the wealthy few. Wealth does not excuse cruelty. We are our brother’s keeper, in this nation of tribes, Black, white, gay, straight, religious, agnostic. America is not a club for elites. It must honor the majority’s will while protecting the minority’s dignity.
We won’t fix this through violence or conspiracy. Repair begins with belief, in the promise and in each other. The mountain is calling. Let us get it right.
George Freeman,
Presiding Chaplain Universal Life Church Monastery