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I found this article on Arc's livejournal.
It made me mad.
It made me mad because as a Christian at a liberal school, this is the kind of thing that makes people look at me funny when I tell them I'm a Christian. This is the kind of thing that makes me ashamed to be putting myself under the same word as these people.
Whatever happened to "love your neighbor?" Jesus didn't say, "love your neighbor as long as they're not gay, or not pagan, or not abortionists."
It made me mad because the ACLU is one of those few organizations, in my mind, speaking out for true freedom. Sure, they're protecting the rights of truly out-on-the-left political pundits. But they're protecting the rights of people like these two to be able to say what they just said; and I'm sure that if someone tried to systematically silence people like Falwell, the ACLU would be there battling against the silence. They might not be crazy about it, but they'd be battling. "I might not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
And no, I don't think it's great that they've taken all mention of religion out of public arenas like workplaces and schools - I think that if you want to pray in school, great, go ahead. If you want to stop the business meeting to have some little quiet time between you and allah, go ahead. But this "throwing God out of the public square" has not stopped people from finding faith in something bigger than themselves. People are looking for answers, and they've not going to stop that because they're not handed them on the silver platter of civics as perhaps they were 50 or 100 years ago.
But blaming the bombs on the wrath of God brought on by "pagans, abortionists, feminists, those gays and lesbians trying to make it an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU and the People for the American Way..." my God.
My God.
Isn't there enough hate in the world without creating more?
People should be working together to mend. This isn't a time to tear apart the already tenuous social fabric of this country.
If the apocalypse is coming, I think people like this are bringing it down on their own heads, through their own efforts, without even knowing what they're about.
It made me mad.
It made me mad because as a Christian at a liberal school, this is the kind of thing that makes people look at me funny when I tell them I'm a Christian. This is the kind of thing that makes me ashamed to be putting myself under the same word as these people.
Whatever happened to "love your neighbor?" Jesus didn't say, "love your neighbor as long as they're not gay, or not pagan, or not abortionists."
It made me mad because the ACLU is one of those few organizations, in my mind, speaking out for true freedom. Sure, they're protecting the rights of truly out-on-the-left political pundits. But they're protecting the rights of people like these two to be able to say what they just said; and I'm sure that if someone tried to systematically silence people like Falwell, the ACLU would be there battling against the silence. They might not be crazy about it, but they'd be battling. "I might not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
And no, I don't think it's great that they've taken all mention of religion out of public arenas like workplaces and schools - I think that if you want to pray in school, great, go ahead. If you want to stop the business meeting to have some little quiet time between you and allah, go ahead. But this "throwing God out of the public square" has not stopped people from finding faith in something bigger than themselves. People are looking for answers, and they've not going to stop that because they're not handed them on the silver platter of civics as perhaps they were 50 or 100 years ago.
But blaming the bombs on the wrath of God brought on by "pagans, abortionists, feminists, those gays and lesbians trying to make it an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU and the People for the American Way..." my God.
My God.
Isn't there enough hate in the world without creating more?
People should be working together to mend. This isn't a time to tear apart the already tenuous social fabric of this country.
If the apocalypse is coming, I think people like this are bringing it down on their own heads, through their own efforts, without even knowing what they're about.
