Sometimes your friends, or at least allies, can come from strange places. That could be the case here judging from this interview given by Charles Barkley, former pro basketball player, current NBA analyst for TNT television, and potential Deomcratic candidate for governor in Alabama.
Barkley nas been considering jumping into the political fray in his home state for some years and appears to be inching closer to pulling the trigger. He has switched his party affiliation, saying the Republicans have "lost their minds."
Speaking on religion, he said, "Religious people in general are so discriminatory against other people, and that really disturbs me. My idea of religion is we all love and respect. We all sin, but we still have common decency and respect for other people. So right now I'm struggling with my idea of what religion is."
Regarding gay marriage, Barkley said, "I think if they want to get married, God bless them. Gay marriage is probably 1 percent of the population, so it's not like it's going to be an epidemic." This is an excellent point, differing from those who act like allowing same-sex marriage would bring about the fall of civilization.
He closed with, "When you get elected to public office, you're supposed to represent everybody. Your job is not to take care of the rich or the poor or the black or the white. Your job is to take care of everybody."
I've heard a lot of political rhetoric this year that made a lot less sense than that.
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I think the mistake that left-wing Christians are making is to teach that the only way to show love is to be accepting and tolerant of sinful behavior....therefore, "who cares if gays get married?"
ReplyDeleteJohn the baptizer openly rebuked a local ruler for taking his brother's wife to be his own. It cost him his life, but under the guidance of the Holy Spirit he was willing to call a spade a spade. Today's politically correct Christian would have probably supplied the knife for John's head.
Resisting modern trends to incorporate sin into the social fabric of America is not "intolerance", folks.....it's a display of God's righteousness.
Both Jesus and John would have been branded extremely intolerant and unloving in today's day and age.
So, I suppose the Christian Right is in pretty good company.