The morning of Easter is a uniquely joyful and peaceful moment. And yet that peace yesterday was shattered for many observant Christians by a statement that the President of the United States put out at 8.03 a.m. Eastern time on Easter morning.

Now, a lot of people reading that imagined, "Of course, this can't be real." Did the President of the United States really just write that? And it is real. It is maybe the most real thing this President has ever done and also the most revealing.

On every level, it is vile on every level. It begins with a promise to use the U.S. military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country.

Bridges that people cross every day to go to school and work and to worship at church—there are over a million Christians in Iran. This is their Easter too. And power plants, not the power plants attached to missile factories. OK, but civilian power plants in a country of almost 100 million people.

What happens when it loses power? Well, people die. Babies connected to incubators die. People in hospitals die. And those are the first-level effects. And then people begin to starve. And then you have refugee crises. People leave the cities looking for food. And yes, they move into other countries in the region, in Europe, in the United States.

You cause chaos and death, mass suffering and death, when you do that. And we have done that. We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran. It's totally unacceptable.

None of the phony laws of some international body, but under moral law, God's law, killing noncombatants, people who did nothing wrong, who didn't choose this war. We're just people created by God.

That is immoral. That will never be moral. That can never be justified. That is always wrong. It can be expedient. We need to do this. It doesn't mean that's right. It's the most wrong thing.

And we should always remember that what we do will be done to us. Live by the destruction of civilian infrastructure, live by the killing of children, and live by the bombing of elementary schools and colleges.

And you will die and your children will die by those same things. That's just a fact. That's never not been true. We don't want it to be true. It's the last thing we want to be true. But it is nonetheless true.