The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Rabbi Moti Rieber is executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, a statewide, multifaith issue-advocacy organization that works on a variety of social, economic and climate justice issues.
Democracy is the ideal that underlies the United States.
Much of our struggle toward greater justice has been a struggle for greater democracy, including securing equal citizenship for African Americans, voting rights for women and justice for LGBTQ folks. Our faith traditions consider it our moral duty to respect one another and build a diverse society where, as Kansas Interfaith Action’s literature puts it, “All are created in God’s image, and all have the right to equal protection under the law.”
We live in a time of growing conflict between the vision and lived reality of an increasingly multiracial and pluralistic democracy, and a counter reaction to this vision. There are, in our state and nation, those attempting to impose far-right social and political ideas on the entire population. These are a minority of the country, who instead of moderating their stances and working for compromise as democracy demands, have instead chosen to undermine the institutions of democracy in order to maintain their minoritarian rule.
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