I can’t understand the Christianity of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who has told people to turn to Scripture to truly understand his perspective on the matters of the day.

As I recall from my days in Sunday School, Jesus was very concerned about the well being of children which is why he said things like, “... whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.” I don’t understand how Mike Johnson’s Republican controlled House can tie aid to Ukraine and Israel to horrible treatment of children at the southern border. The immigration system needs to be fixed so desperate young mothers and their children have a decent federally funded place to wait for a fair asylum hearing that considers hunger caused by grinding poverty.

Separating desperate children from their parents or stringing barbed wire tied to floats down the middle of the Rio Grande river to trap and drown mothers with children certainly can’t be seen as adhering to the teaching of Scripture. I guess the founding fathers making it unconstitutional to force religious beliefs on others through the law of the land were thinking about the possibility of somebody from the ‘Church of What Jesus Would Never Do’ coming to power and imposing cruelty on desperately poor children. American democracy is not threatened by treating desperate asylum seekers humanely, it is threatened by drowning barbed-wire-tangled children who have made an extremely arduous journey seeking American democracy.