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A friend, with whom I frequently disagree politically but who has a big heart, shared a saying on Facebook that reads, \u201cNot takin\u2019 Syrian refugees and closin\u2019 our borders isn\u2019t \u2018mean\u2019 or \u2018heartless.\u201d \u00a0I lock my doors to my house every night.\u00a0 I don\u2019t lock them because I hate the people outside my house.\u00a0 I lock them because I love the people inside my house.\u201d<\/p>\n
My first reaction was that this made sense, until I realized it is an analogy that addresses the wrong doors.\u00a0 The order to close out Syrian refugees is not about locking the doors to our homes.\u00a0 It\u2019s about locking the doors to our Red Cross shelters, places of worship, homeless shelters, and the homes of those willing to take in others in need.<\/p>\n
Think about it like this.\u00a0 Yes, we live in our home and lock the doors.\u00a0 But we also live in a broader community.\u00a0 In our community, St. Louis, we unfortunately have what seems like more than our fair share of tornadoes.\u00a0 But isn\u2019t every community at some risk of a natural disaster?<\/p>\n
Consider this scenario.\u00a0 You have locked your doors\u2014you\u2019re in for the night\u2014you\u2019re safe in your home with your loved ones.\u00a0 The tornado sirens go off, and you tune into the local news to learn a funnel cloud that has been sighted and is heading your way.\u00a0 You know the drill\u2014everybody down in the basement, away from the windows.\u00a0 The weather radio tells you the tornado has touched down nearby but is now past.\u00a0 The warning is over, and just like all of the past warnings, you\u2019re OK.\u00a0 With your home doors still locked for safety, you slog upstairs, grab a quick snack from your overstocked pantry, and nestle into bed for a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in a subdivision only three miles from you, 100 homes, whose doors had also been locked for safety, are destroyed.\u00a0 Six people are dead, including two children\u2014photographs of their broken bodies are immediately shared across social media.\u00a0 One hundred families are without shelter, beds, or food.\u00a0 They are traumatized, desperate, confused, lost.\u00a0 They come out of the rubble and wander their neighborhood trying to figure out what to do.\u00a0 Through no fault of their own, their lives are shattered.<\/p>\n
But wait.\u00a0 We live in St. Louis.\u00a0 Community action kicks in.\u00a0 The Red Cross opens shelters.\u00a0 Faith based organizations do the same.\u00a0 Homeless shelters declare that they are ready and willing to take in tornado survivors.\u00a0 Individual families unlock their doors and offer to take in strangers.\u00a0 The tornado victims\u2014while their homes are destroyed, while some of their neighbors are dead or injured, while it will take all they can muster to somehow rebuild their lives\u2014will have a warm, safe place to sleep, clothes to wear, and food to eat.\u00a0 The children will be safe. \u00a0The families will be together and nestled in the caring arms of their community.<\/p>\n
But wait.\u00a0 Local government officials issue an order\u2014Lock the Red Cross shelter doors.\u00a0 Lock the churches and synagogues and mosques that were willing to take in survivors.\u00a0 Lock the doors of the homeless shelters and arrest those families who have unlocked their doors to take in tornado survivors.<\/p>\n
That is the analogy of locked doors we should be talking about.\u00a0 It is a circumstance of nature that has a tornado hit that subdivision and not ours.\u00a0 But we live in a community and want to help.\u00a0 It is a circumstance of birth that we live in the United States and not in civil-war-torn Syria.\u00a0 But we live in a world community and want to help.<\/p>\n
So, should we lock the doors of our homes to be safe?\u00a0 Yes, there are bad people out there.\u00a0 But should we also lock the doors in our communities that are open to those in desperate need?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n
The local authorities argue that the subdivision that was hit by the tornado has had a recent crime spree and may have some bad people living there.\u00a0 They argue that there is a registered sex offender in that subdivision, and it is unsafe for the children to be in the same shelter with him.<\/p>\n
Of the 100 homes and perhaps 400 people in need, there may be three that are questionable.\u00a0 Valid concerns?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 But as a community, should we lock out the other 397?\u00a0 Or should we immediately open the doors to everyone to relieve the suffering and find other ways to deal with the concerns?<\/p>\n
Yes, we should lock the doors to our homes.\u00a0 Yes, we should be vigilant about the bad people out there.\u00a0 But we should not allow the tornado surviving families and their children to wander the streets of their destroyed neighborhood without shelter, a bed, clothing, or food, when our community has the wherewithal to provide all of that and individuals and organizations willing to do so.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t lock those doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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