Breaking Down Walls
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As most of you who read my blogs regularly know, I am a fairly conservative Christian.
As many of you also know, I am very staunchly against the federal marriage amendment.
The latter position has brought me a whole lot of flames from my one other blogsite by many of my contemporaries. So, when I received a reply in my email to my article on that site today for my piece (which I reprinted here, entitled "Why we should NOT Support the Federal Marriage Amendment: a Conservative View), I held my breath. I decided to open it anyway, and the letter was as follows:
re: Why we should not support the federal marriage amendment: a
conservative view
Thank God for a Christian person that seems to have sense, compassion,
sensibility and real intellectual foresight! I am a gay man, 38, and
although I am not religious, I was raised Jewish.
So, of course I take this whole marriage amendment thing quite to
heart. I also try not to make the comparison to Nazi Germany too much, but
it is frightening when goverment and especially a President starts to
speak out against a group of people.
Although it is a different era, and we have hopefully learned from past
history, it does NOT mean that other things cannot occur when we allow
a goverment and mean-spirited President/leader to start making moral
decisions.
I only wish that other Christian people held your viewpoint and behaved
in the truly Christian manner you seem to.
Thank you for your post...and may I as an agnostic say to you "God
bless you"?
Sincerely,
NG.
Now, I have to say, responses like that make my day. I have seen too many people with walls built up against Christianity over the course of my life; heck, I've BEEN one of them. I believe it is my responsibility as a Christian and as a minister to tear down those walls, to reach out to people as Christ would, and did, and to help them find healing.
I know I'm not perfect; far from it. But I believe that, at times like these, I'm on the right track.
signing off,
Gideon MacLeish
"
As many of you also know, I am very staunchly against the federal marriage amendment.
The latter position has brought me a whole lot of flames from my one other blogsite by many of my contemporaries. So, when I received a reply in my email to my article on that site today for my piece (which I reprinted here, entitled "Why we should NOT Support the Federal Marriage Amendment: a Conservative View), I held my breath. I decided to open it anyway, and the letter was as follows:
re: Why we should not support the federal marriage amendment: a
conservative view
Thank God for a Christian person that seems to have sense, compassion,
sensibility and real intellectual foresight! I am a gay man, 38, and
although I am not religious, I was raised Jewish.
So, of course I take this whole marriage amendment thing quite to
heart. I also try not to make the comparison to Nazi Germany too much, but
it is frightening when goverment and especially a President starts to
speak out against a group of people.
Although it is a different era, and we have hopefully learned from past
history, it does NOT mean that other things cannot occur when we allow
a goverment and mean-spirited President/leader to start making moral
decisions.
I only wish that other Christian people held your viewpoint and behaved
in the truly Christian manner you seem to.
Thank you for your post...and may I as an agnostic say to you "God
bless you"?
Sincerely,
NG.
Now, I have to say, responses like that make my day. I have seen too many people with walls built up against Christianity over the course of my life; heck, I've BEEN one of them. I believe it is my responsibility as a Christian and as a minister to tear down those walls, to reach out to people as Christ would, and did, and to help them find healing.
I know I'm not perfect; far from it. But I believe that, at times like these, I'm on the right track.
signing off,
Gideon MacLeish
"
