Post #2: What is wrong with us?

Traveling virtually anywhere from my house forces me to drive by a corner that is daily filled with people devoting their time to Proposition 8 in California. At least 100 people were there waving their Pro & Con signs for at least 5 hours yesterday as I was about my business of the day.

I just read that spending on this proposition will likely top $70 million dollars. What is wrong with us?! Can you imagine what a positive difference that money could make to the homeless shelters or to improve the lives of the least fortunate of our communities? Imagine the witness we would send if, instead of fighting about this senseless proposition, we got a grip on ourselves and focused on the multitude of things that we share, rather than the one thing that we don’t share? What if we all volunteered to prepare and serve warm meals to hungry people or if we passed out warm blankets and clean coats to the homeless. Instead, we have allowed ourselves to fight and argue and oppose and be hostile. While the entire premise of Proposition 8 is baffling to me, I refuse to do this any longer.

Matthew 5:39: But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

I will never understand that aspect of humans which causes us to think that different = wrong and I am ashamed, ashamed, A-S-H-A-M-E-D of US every time I drive by that corner. We know better but we just don’t know what we are doing.

Luke 23:34: Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing." Dividing up his clothes, they threw dice for them. The people stood there staring at Jesus, and the ringleaders made faces, taunting, "He saved others. Let's see him save himself! The Messiah of God—ha! The Chosen—ha!"