Monday, March 30, 2015

I'm trying, but really?...

                          There was a time, not so long ago, that I was more conservative than Bob Dole and  Pat Buchanan, combined. I held strong to an unwavering Faith in the 2nd amendment, blind immigration enforcement and a comforting knoledege that America was long past any need to address racial inequality...
                             I don't know if the times were a changing, but it seems that I was.
                     I do still tend to have a conservative bend, but lately it has been tempered with an intent of Grace and a little less judgement.
                              I grew up believing most of Archie Bunkers rants as fact and a total distrust of the "enlightened" culture I soon would attempt joining, in my teens...
                           The problem was, that no matter how much of " The Grateful Dead" I listened to, and how many books by Leo Buscaglia I read, internally, my core beliefs remained the same...
                                  But if you've read this blog for any amount of time, you may have noticed a softening and possible reversal of beliefs, in many aspects...
                                It is nearly comic, how my heart has been changed.
                         I acknowledge today that a fairly harsh inequality still exists in our nations psyche, between the communities of different races.
                         But I also see inequalities that most don't recognize, or when they do, choose to charge it with a different name...
                                                      Prejudice.
                           Not against skin color or sexual orientation, but the disenfranchising and obstruction of another equealy discriminated group.
                                                 Religious intolerance...
                              I believe all men and women , regardless of race, color or sexual preference, are entitled to equeal treatment, under the law.
                                          No special treatment, for any of us...
                            Once again, I find myself not blindly tied to exact interpretations and limitations of our Constitution, but bound to simple beliefs of the heart...
                         So with the risk of being labeled a bigot or homophobe, I find myself defending not necessarily the right, but the ability to live a spiritual belief...
                        My marriage is not threatened by any other couple marrying, whether that is an abusive man marrying a victimized women, which I do not believe God condones, or a loving same sex couple...
                   The Covenant between God, my Wonderful Wife and myself is not affected by either...
                             But forcing a Pastor to defy his God and his beliefs, and mandate him to marry those he does not believe should be, whether that is a man and woman who do not complete the pre- marital counseling or a same sex couple that break the laws of the Church he has been ordained to serve and protect...
                           I think he should have the freedom to " Just say no".
                Forcing a Christian nurse to abort a fetus or a Christian wedding planner to ignore the God that led them to that career they use to edify Him, is an abomination...
             Notice I do not use that word regarding homosexuality, but regarding the forcing of any person to betray their core identity, by a power of government or mob mentality...
                                        To me, that is the abomination...
                 I'm hoping that definition might ring true among many, regardless of politics or religion...
                       I think this is bigger than law. It seems to be much more about hearts judgement.
                            Is it right to legally force someone to abandon their God?
                                                         I have my answer.
                                              You probably have yours...

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