There’s a Bible verse for every situation and a teaching of Jesus interpreted to justify just about anything, however tortured. David Simpson—a conservative Christian and very much a Republican—argued in 2015, when the Tea Party favorite introduced a legalization bill: if God made it, it must be good. Man is the one that made it illegal.” As former Texas state Rep. Lydia Decker is a 49-year-old “nondenominational” but nonetheless staunchly conservative Christian living in West Texas, the place where (for some people, anyway) a border wall makes sense. Legalization won in four states, and in three others—Arkansas, North Dakota and Florida, all deep-red Trump-supporting states—voters approved medical marijuana.
Feed the hungry, heal the sick—and free the weed.
There’s a Bible verse for every situation and a teaching of Jesus interpreted to justify just about anything, however tortured. But as Buzzfeed recently reported, more and more conservative Christians in the Deep South—exactly the kind of people in exactly the kind of place where lawmakers and law-enforcement types have relied on popular support for the “morals” of the drug war—are discovering that church and legalization can co-exist.
More specifically, they’re discovering that if you’re a true Christian—no fallacies here—the only proper course of action is to agitate for...
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