The Missing Link

The Love Gap

     Speaking the Truth in Love.

Washington is a polarized place. It can be vicious, vindictive, it creates enemies and adversaries- because that's how people think the political game is won. Acrimony, Sanctimony, Aspersions of Moral Inferiority, name calling (Faux Catholics, Catholic lite, Cafeteria Catholics, Babykillers, etc.), bannings, exclusions, ostracizations, nasty emails, and slander pervade the political climate.

    This is obviously the opposite of how Jesus persuaded people. He first did miracles, he healed, he fed, he was the life of the party turning water to wine, he hung out with the derelicts (john the baptist you thought a locust- eating freak and Jesus you call a glutton and sinner because he hangs out with prostitutes and tax collectors)--

Take the whole gay marriage issue. Arrogance doesn't win arguments. Calling people moral reprobates doesn't win arguments.

Jesus , John tells us is God and God is Love. Where there is Love there is God.

So what would Jesus do. He would first explain that he loves you- he created you and is proud of his creation. When God created everything he sat back, looked at it and said "Wow that's good!" Really proud. Mankind is especially awesome because we are all mini-self portraits of God. Like God sat in front of a mirror and made Mini-mis in all shades and colors. Wow, that's Good. I Love YOU he said.

   He made them male and female, and that's all good. He made them with parts specifically for going together so that man and woman leave their parents and 'cleave' to each other in Love making ONE flesh together. When that happens God's creative power is most greatly manifest because that makes another human in the image of God, thanks to God. Wow, that's Good! Really Good!

  The people who want Gay marriage are not crazy, and most of them are well intended kind people-
It does not advance the argument to remotely malign them.  They are not scared of your fire and brimstone and we are turning into Sodom on the Potomac.  They want to raise nice kids just like you do.

What might be missing is the communication of Love-because it is badly reflected in the condemnors. God is Love, so when he says don't do something it is because he Loves you. If you understand how much God really loves you it is easy to understand why he says don't do certain things to yourself. Why
might you not want to couple yourself with the same sex in sexual expressions with the same gender?
God made you, and wrote the operating manual and says don't do it. Why is it a good idea to follow the operating manual? Someone who reads them , like an engineer could tell you, and other people who just buy the car follow it because they trust the maker of the model.  God knows that women's Vs have a protective mucas lining that mouths do not have, for example. So it is much easier to get oral cancer from oral sex than it is to get cervical cancer. google Michael Douglas, oral sex, cancer and you will see what I am talking about. Also, an anus does not have this special mucas lining and is not as elastic as a V- so repeated anal sex can cause tears and fissures that over time will leak fecal matter into your body cavity which can pose life threatening infections. There is an intrinsic health risk. Just ask anyone who has been in a gay relationship long enough experimenting with where they can put a penis and ask them how much medication they are on.

    When God says- you have choices in Life he gives you free will. They are big choices. Life and Death ones. Because the wages, or income, or paycheck for doing something contrary to the operating manual is death. You go to a job you do a job (say a BJ) and God says, here is your pay-would you like it direct deposit? - you die. There is a medical reason and a spiritual one- and they are in the fine print in the owners manual.

Do you want to follow the owners operating manual? Choose therefore LIFE. For yourself and those you love. Do you want to make it illegal to follow the owners operating manual? If I poured orange juice down a car engine what do you think would happen to it over time?

    If this policy making business were not about funding for lobbyists who will scream nasty things from arrogant positions of moral superiority, but were trying to Love people better, more constructive things would be accomplished. We are all sinner schmucks in God's eyes. No Republican is better than any Democrat in God's eyes- we all need him and Jesus' atoning sacrifice for our salvation- every last one of us, every last Cardinal and Bishop and Monsignor and Supreme Court Justice.

     Can we all choose life together?  Because we understand how much God loves all of us, from Obama to Pelosi, from Scalia to Roberts to Breyer to Kagan and everyone in between?