Evidence that Laken Riley was a pretty serious Christian

I remember having a debate at the SBC church I was attending, with someone from Russell Moore’s ERLC. The ERLC is a group that pretends to be religious and conservative, but they frequently align with Democrats. The ERLC person was explaining to me why they are in favor of open borders. And I tried to explain to him how open borders costs ordinary Christians money and puts them at risk.

So, with that in mind, here is an interesting article from Christian Post, about the young woman who was recently murdered by an illegal immigrant when she resisted his attempts to rape her.

First, here is the news about the trial:

The mother of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant earlier this year, wept as she begged the judge to sentence the killer to life in prison, asking that he not receive mercy when he showed none to her daughter or the family he destroyed.

Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without parole for Riley’s murder Wednesday.

Haggard sentenced Ibarra to the maximum possible punishments for multiple charges, including kidnapping, aggravated assault with intent to rape, obstruction of a 911 call, tampering with evidence and a peeping tom charge. The judge ordered that the defendant serve each sentence consecutively, according to CNN, condemning Ibarra to two life sentences and 27 years in prison.

Now, I already wrote about this crime, and about the role that the Department of Homeland Security had in allowing it to happen.

But I have to write about it again, because of the facts that came out about the victim, at the sentencing:

In a victim statement read before the court Wednesday, Allyson Phillips called her daughter a “child of God” who demonstrated her love for the Lord through missionary work and caring for the elderly.

Missionary work and caring for the elderly?

This girl was not out doing risky things, like partying with drunk bad boys, she was just out for a JOG on a university campus:

Riley, a student at Augusta University College of Nursing, never returned home after she left that morning to go jogging around the University of Georgia campus.

She wrote a letter to her future husband, which is a pretty good sign that she was thinking about an early marriage:

John Phillips, Riley’s stepfather, spoke before Ibarra’s sentencing on Wednesday, referring to Riley as a “shining beacon of light in the life of everyone that knew her.” The stepfather read one of Riley’s last journal entries, in which the young woman wrote a letter to her future husband.

“‘I pray that you know that it is with my full faith and trust in God that I know this relationship has been handcrafted by Him,’” Phillips read. “I pray that we continue to glorify the Lord, prioritize Him in every aspect of our lives, and raise our future family to be God-fearing Christians as well.’”

I just thought that it was important to highlight this so that Christians understand how to process the political positions of people like David French, Russell Moore, Matt Chandler, etc. Frankly I think that even Christians who are silent about border security are also to blame. I think that Christian leaders ought to speak up about the policies and past actions of the political candidates, so that everyone understands what is at stake.

We really need to have Christian leaders who understand policy. And I don’t mean only abortion. I mean fiscal policy, social policy and foreign policy. During elections, it’s not the time to lay low, and try to get along with everyone. It’s the time to speak up for people who are going to be hurt by bad policy. Not just the unborn ones, the born ones, too.