The Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution affirming what it called the “American Values” of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the party’s annual summer meeting. The Democratic Party has struggled to regain its footing after a stunning loss in the 2024 election, but party leaders have so far ignored advice to avoid the cultural leftism that pushed many 2024 voters towards President Donald Trump.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion “are American values. This is what America was built on,” declared delegate Bill Owen, a Democrat from Tennessee. “And to my Republican friends and fellow citizens … who profess to be active Christians, I remind them that DEI is the very foundation of the Christian church. I get a little emotional on this, but: ‘Jesus loves little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white.’”

Let Owen’s hot take stand as a warning against founding a worldview on a children’s song or treating the lyrics as an irrefutable mic drop. On issues that matter, it’s far safer to consult the original source itself—which, given the multitude of accurate English Bible translations available at reasonable prices, is not terribly difficult to do.

According to the Bible, the kingdom of heaven will have diversity, in the form of “a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages” (Revelation 7:9). But the equity (or justice) of this kingdom actually results in exclusion of the unregenerate. “And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. … And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:12, 15). Of course, the diversity of God’s kingdom is not an end in itself; it exists to showcase God’s wisdom and glory (Ephesians 3:10).

All of this is quite irrelevant to any discussion of political DEI, since God’s people constitute a spiritual entity, not a political one. A key........

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