For god and country, the christian case for trump. Mr. Reed, what is that case and. Guest well, the case in a nutshell is that as christians, were called to not only be citizens of the kingdom of god, which is both here now and yet to come, and were also called to be citizens on earth of whatever policy or society or nation we happen to be part of. And were if you look at the old and the new testament, theres a consistent and clear teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion. First of all to defend our rights, within that government, which of course in the United States means rights under the constitution and at the bill of rights, to a freedom of speech to assembly to tree dom of religion. Freedom of religion that are our birthright and then secondly as a witness of our faith. So in the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and pro life and pro family and faithful roman catholics to back trump, both in 201
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Okay, thank you. Thank you. I run a Small Research unit thats dedicated to understanding the criminal Justice System in the state of connecticut. I work for the office of policy and management, and one of my responsibilities is to look hard at the prison system, and every year we produce recidivism studies and other studies related to people coming out of connecticut prisons over time. And ive been doing these studies for about ten years for the state of connecticut, and one thing that i have kind of come to accept working in criminal justice is its an area which doesnt prepare people to see a lot of good news. Most of the outcomes are generally not so good. So in terms of recidivism in connecticut, sort of for the threeyear period following an incarceration in connecticut, about 60 of the people that come out of prison are rearrested. Among people under the age of 25, it is about 72 . Those arent good numbers. In terms of risk and outcomes, in terms of mortality and other things, peop