"God Is Missing From the Republican Platform" by Charles J. Reid Jr. at Huff Post

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God Is Missing From the Republican Platform

by Charles J. Reid Jr. at Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-j-reid-jr/god-is-missing-from-the-republican-platform_b_1864736.html

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There are many other ways this platform fails the standard Jesus set out for how he will judge us on the last day. Consider the plight of workers. Incomes are declining in the United States. We are, from the standpoint of wage growth, in a period of wage deflation. Why? One compelling reason is the growing disparity in power between the individual employee and employer. In a world of many options, employers may transfer jobs, off-shore them, eliminate them, strip them of benefits, and thereby lay waste to whole cities and towns.

Organized labor has always stood as a barrier to these sorts of depredations. Unions never truly created an equal playing field, employers have always had the upper hand, but unions at least gave workers the hope of increasing wages and job stability. And with wages and stability, we have a chance at a working class able to marry, have children and raise the next generation. You want to defend the family? You should begin by defending wage security.

For more than a century, the Catholic magisterium has endorsed labor unions for precisely these reasons. The Republican platform makes war on this very idea. It calls for "the enactment of a National Right-to-Work law." Its demand for "worker freedom" is of a piece with the social darwinist individualism embodied in discredited Supreme Court decisions like Lochner v. New York.

No one should want to be associated with this platform on Judgment Day.

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