by Aaron Gulbransen and Aaron Spradlin
The Sound of Freedom is a wonderful and eye-opening movie. We’ve constantly urged people to see the movie and if you haven’t yet, go grab your tickets to see it right now.
For many, it has become similar to the Sinner’s Prayer moment in the life of a Christian.
Like the Sinner’s Prayer serves as the starting point in the life of a new believer in Christ. It is vitally important that you purposefully take your new awareness of the evils of the modern-day slavery that is child and human trafficking to a mature and responsible level.
The Sound of Freedom is, as we say in church, the milk that a new believer will drink. Now is the time to get to the meat.
The meat of the issue of modern-day slavery can be a bit tough to swallow. The meat of the issue of child and human trafficking is that it exists right here in our own communities.
Modern day slavery exists among us, near where our children sleep and play.
It is not a faraway problem that exists a thousand miles away in another country or just at the border.
It is not a problem that will be fixed just by securing the U.S. Southern border. While it is vital for a zillion other reasons that we are not discussing right here to secure the U.S. Southern border, doing so to address this issue is merely a great starting point.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, in the United States, on average, every two minutes, a child is bought or sold for sex.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Southern Border crisis accounts for 13% of the problem.
87% of the problem that is child and human trafficking is right here in the United States.
A TBI representative recently told Daily Wire, “As far as child sex trafficking is concerned, we’re not seeing foreign nationals here, not a lot of them. The majority of the complaints that we get and the cases that we work where there is a child being trafficked, the majority of them are kids that are from Tennessee or from other states.”
As we’ve demonstrated here, and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn and State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson and many other wonderful conservative elected officials in Tennessee have stated in one form or another themselves, the problem in the United States as well as Tennessee is one that we all need to band together to address.
We at the Tennessee Faith & Freedom Coalition, our partners at the Mission America Foundation, and our friends in the Tennessee General Assembly are committed to saving lives and freeing people from the evils of modern-day slavery right here in our state and local communities.
Sadly, the Marxist Left has no interest in this cause.
The Sound of Freedom is an important introduction to the issue of modern-day slavery, and again, we urge everyone to see it, but it is only an introduction.
Our exhortation to those of you reading this is simple. Don’t let seeing or posting about the Sound of Freedom on social media be the last of your involvement in the fight to end modern-day slavery.
Ultimately, saving and freeing children, women, and even men from the evils of child and human trafficking is not about a movie, an actor, a charismatic spokesperson, an individual political candidate, or an advocacy organization.
It is about individual citizens, voters, and communities being aware of the full nature of the problem, asking their elected representatives what they are doing to end modern slavery, and also encouraging those representatives that do lead in the fight.
It is about showing prosecutors who don’t lead in the fight the door. It is about coming up with solutions to the problem right here at home, where our children sleep and play.
We applaud the Sound of Freedom as a vehicle for public awareness. Now that you are aware, we welcome you to this ongoing fight to save lives.
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Aaron Gulbransen is the Executive Director of Tennessee Faith & Freedom Coalition and Aaron Spradlin is the Chairman of TNFFC & the Mission America Foundation.
