I attended the City Commission meeting last week on the topic of a ‘Non-Discrimination Ordinance’. And, I was shocked by all of the hatred that was allowed to be promulgated.  There was a string of people who had been holding onto life-long grudges and they were looking for blood. I think they thought they were advocating fairness or possibly justice.  They seemed to think they had a strong argument by summing up the teachings of Jesus as ‘love everybody’.  I wonder if this includes pedophiles?  Of course the greatest heresy of our day is equating Jesus with ‘love’ and equating ‘love’ with “I can do whatever I want and you can’t even hint that I might be wrong”. It was no surprise that none of them quoted Jesus on the topic of, say, forgiveness.  Such as, “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you”.  No this might make a lifelong grudge against your parents for being disappointed that you had a chopadickoffamy, look petty.   It might make your laments about a high school bully 30 years ago, sound a lot like Uncle Rico. It might make your active repetitive campaigning to pass a law to force people to conform to your views look spiteful.

Interesting that there was no one there appealing to the Koran.  No, everyone seemed to appeal to the Bible or to Jesus  Though it seemed that most of this was 3rd hand, since it didn’t have much to do with what 2000 years of Christendom agreed was what Jesus taught, as recorded in Holy Scripture.  There were a few people who appealed to the god of PhD and one guy seemed to think he wrote Leviticus, but basically it was all about ‘Jesus’.  So, it was ‘Christians’ vs. Christians.  Which is an interesting dichotomy.  You have one group of new ‘Christians’ taking a matter of theology before a City Commission, claiming that old Christians were wrong in rejecting LTBTXYZ and that Jesus really meant to allow everything, because it is loving.  Who is mixing the realms of Church and State again?  Surely this is a matter for the Church.  Im sure all of these people took their cases to their home Church authorities.  Of course that didn’t happen.  And in addition, none of them have taken  their cases before any civil magistrate.  And it’s not because we don’t have enough laws or ordinances.  It’s because they don’t have a case.  All they have are hurt feelings that have been cultivated into grudges that now seek revenge.  They come with emotional appeals, and manufactured hardships because that’s all they have.

Past generations overcame their hardships.  One person went on with a litany of all the persecuted peoples in this country the Irish, Chinese, Jews etc, which is all true.  The only difference is that none of them ever asked for special treatment, they overcame. The poured their blood, sweat and tears into proving those who looked down on them wrong.  They turned hardships into success by perseverance. But this new group proves that they don’t deserve our respect by the fact that they don’t even try to earn it, instead they want to turn failure into litigation. Rather than proving the ‘evil’ Christians who discriminated against them wrong, they come wining to the government.  And apparently this single ordinance is going to stop all school bullies, all parents who make their kids feel bad, and all those evil bigoted Christians who dare to think there is such a thing as wrong.  Utopia is only a few pen strokes away. I can’t believe in 2000 years no one ever thought of this!

But there is real hate popping up in our town.  Just down the street the Catholics built a beautiful addition onto their 100 year old building and some vandals came along and painted obscenities all over it and one of our Christian schools was set on fire.  The supporters of this NDO don’t use paint and fire but they want to use lawyers and litigation instead.  Shall we allow them to paint graffiti on a Christian culture that they could not build?  Shall we allow them to set fire to a cultural success story they did not read?  I don’t think so.