Russell Moore’s foreign policy op-ed published this week in the Wall Street Journal was an interesting exercise in contradictions. His desire for sanctions on China is directly in contrast to his written desire to minimize tariffs. Of course, the tariff issue hit Lifeway, and one shouldn’t be shocked when dollars trump principle. If Lifeway, the ERLC and the Southern Baptist Convention were worried about China’s human rights record, it wouldn’t do business with the atheistic, communist regime. But, well, profits. (You can read our first reaction to Dr. Moore’s WSJ piece here.)
Some will attempt to defend sanctions on China to protect human rights as noble, while economic sanctions to protect American workers are ignoble.