Editor’s Note: a guest post by our old friend and peripatetic Louisiana conservative activist Jensen Young.

Sunday morning, I went to pick up a dozen donuts for my Sunday School class at the Donut Shop in Natchez, Mississippi on the way down to church at Jefferson Baptist in Baton Rouge.

I don’t remember why the lady in line decided to passionately tell me she thought Brian Kelly and the quarterback needed to be replaced.

I know LSU football is quite important to a good chunk of Louisiana. As I headed down Highway 61 to Baton Rouge, I wondered if the passion was there to do the things necessary to make Louisiana truly a business-friendly state like Mississippi did in the early 2000’s or are we going to continue to lose to Ole Miss on the football field and the economic front.

I’m very aware that if the interception return for a touchdown that got called back for LSU by the referees – I heard it on the radio somewhere between a wedding reception I attended outside of Jena to my friend’s house on Lake St John in Concordia Parish – had been called properly for LSU, I might not be penning these thoughts.

We are closer than we’ve been in a while to getting some of the necessary reforms to do this. We have a generally pro-business Republican legislature that has some stalwart conservatives like my friend State Senator Alan Seabaugh who have been willing to lead these charges.

However, we’ve had a bipartisan problem in Louisiana of addiction to trial lawyer campaign cash that has been incredibly hard to beat.

I know some of these trial lawyers probably give well over 10% to the local church when they win a case and have no problem sponsoring the little league baseball team’s fundraiser and employ a few folks in town.

I also know l will see some of these trial lawyers in Heaven because this is not an issue like life or traditional marriage that is completely clear in the Bible.

With the recent closing of the evilness of Planned Parenthood in Louisiana, I’d like to propose a win-win compromise.

I’m more than happy to let the trial lawyers in Louisiana run wild and use their courtroom prowess on suing the folks who are mailing abortion pills illegally into Louisiana for every economic damage you ever imagined & dreamed of if they’d get out of the way on car/truck insurance rates and let the oil & gas business flourish in Louisiana.

This is an eventual win-win for everybody in Louisiana.  Our state’s population would grow with the babies born and parents wouldn’t be dealing with the long-term side effects of abortion. Consumers would get badly needed car insurance rate reductions; our logging friends could get the Louisiana timber to market, and oil & gas companies could start to come back at a much faster rate and deepen business roots in Louisiana.

We also wouldn’t be one of the first SEC states eliminated when companies are looking to add to expand in the southeastern United States.

With the new companies coming to Louisiana & other companies being willing to expand even more in Louisiana, the smart business savvy trial lawyers would make proper business adjustments to practices and make more money than they ever dreamed of with the new commerce we’d be seeing. The extra money they can then still give to the local little league baseball team may even lead to the baby we saved growing up and hitting a home run to win the College World Series for LSU.

Before I forget, I think we have better uses in Louisiana for the millions of dollars it would take to fire Brian Kelly. We’ve won national championships (and could still win this one) with quarterbacks like Matt Flynn and Matt Mauck (who also had in season losses), who I think LSU’s current quarterback reminds me of.

I want to thank Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill for all the work they have done in the pro-life arena that helped convince Planned Parenthood to leave Louisiana and even though we may not agree on everything, they are still better every day, and especially on Sunday, than any Democrat that may try to emerge against them.

Lastly even though I am not Catholic, there is no doubt in my mind without the steadfast leadership of the Catholic Diocese of New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond we would not have saved the babies that were saved when he unapologetically led boycott efforts that delayed Planned Parenthood’s construction in New Orleans years ago. All of us in Louisiana should thank him for those efforts and the prayers of many pro-life warriors across Louisiana for the future children that will be here with us in Louisiana with Planned Parenthood being gone.