Freedom

The Christian is vexed by the government taking away prayer in school and the post the Ten Commandments in government buildings. I think deep down we have good reason to feel this way - it is frightening to see a once godly nation turning post-Christian.

We do wrong to personalize the issue, to make it about our rights. It becomes "us versus them," and is spiritually unproductive. Jesus issued a command that we go and make disciples. Are we making disciples of homosexuals by fighting against their wishes to be married? I can understand the idea of protecting the sanctity of marriage. But if we are truly that concerned about marriage being holy, why aren't we campaigning to legally prohibit divorce?

It wouldn't be a bad thing for all of us on the evangelical right (or right-middle) to ask ourselves what it is we really hope to accomplish with our political agendas, and then to ask ourselves if our methods really coincide with what God has instructed us to do.