Summer is a few days old, and summer is already hotter than usual for June, but nothing compared to what is coming.

With the reversal of Roe v. Wade on Friday morning by the U.S. Supreme Court, the summer of 2022 is going to heat up far more than we have seen since the 1960s.

You see Roe v. Wade is as important to some as the right to own a machine gun. Those two topics because of their inflammatory nature are going to set the cities on fire this summer.

Don’t be surprised if we have looting, shooting and flames for the 4th of July in some cities across the nation. Rioters will be sporting new tennis shoes and jewelry within days whether they know what Roe v. Wade was about or not.

We are not going to take a position on abortion, woman’s rights, right-to-life, when does life begin, or whatever else you want to call it. Everyone needs to make that decision for themselves.

No one will change his or her mind based on what we say here or what the Supreme Court says. Unfortunately, the changes in the law, if there are any, will be decided by people that have never faced the decisions that goes with the subject matter.

The same is true about gun control. What are the chances that a Supreme Court justice will be in a grocery store when it is attacked?

The battles to come in the courtroom, followed by the reaction at the ballot box, will determine the law for the next 50 years.

Most never thought Roe v. Wade would ever be overturned. But what also will impact our nation will be the people who can’t accept anything but their own opinion and will influence others to take to the streets and set fire to cities, businesses and churches.

If this country ever needed God’s grace, it would be now. Hopefully, our churches will be full of praying worshipers this weekend not people protesting as a prelim to violence and destruction.

Please, let your voices be heard but without violence and without destroying other people’s lives.

—R V