I was going to stay out of this whole Chick fil a business, mostly because I couldn't find the right words to explain how I felt about it. But then I read this quote from Rick Warren:
"Our culture has accepted two huge lies: The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate."
Now Rick Warren was not talking about the gay marriage issue when he said this, but I feel like it applies all across the board. Why does everything have to get so nasty....just because you don't believe what someone else believes. And people on both sides of the issue are guilty, I have seen and heard things from both sides that make me shake my head. As Christians I believe our number one priority to other human beings is to love them! Counting other people's sins does NOT make you a saint. Jesus didn't shun and judge people...as a matter of fact he would be the first one to love the most unloveable.
I think Dan Cathy the CEO of Chick fil a had every right to say what he said, because that is the beauty of living in a free nation. I also have many Gay and Lesbian friends who I love dearly, and I never want to see them hurt by anyone or anything. BUT, what I find interesting is that Cathy also said "and we are married to our first wives" and supporting the "Traditional family", and NOBODY took that as a dig at divorce!? You want to know why? Because divorce is so culturally accepted now days, and so many Christians are divorced so nobody wants to make it an issue. Because if we are going to get all biblical let me tell you what almost ALL of us are living in sin...Not just gay people. If you are divorced and married again...in Gods eyes you are committing adultery. If you are living with/having sex with your boyfriend or girlfriend before marriage you are living in sin...And the list goes on and on. Please understand that I am not judging...I'm just trying to put things in perspective. Because you know what at the end of my life the only person I'm going to have to answer to God about is myself.
Look I am by no means perfect and there are many many things I need to work on within myself, but I do know how to love people and how to agree to disagree. Trust me it's a lot easier to love people for who and what they are than to try to change them. So stop trying to rank sins and realize that we are all on the same level of sucking at being the people we need to be!
LOVE that you are doing this BLOG!!! You are a very smart, level-headed woman that stands by her own beliefs. I say SO TRUE to everything you have said. I TRULY wish that you would be President one day-WHY? Because of your honesty and dedication to your heritage and to GOD himself. Our Country is very judgemental and the media JUST LOVES to twist and turn things to make them more interesting. This makes me SICK!!! The media selects WHAT they can elaborate ot SHOCK people and the ones that ARE IMPORTANT-you never hear a word about it. I say GOD BLESS AMERICA, because our Country NEED IT SOOOO BAD> LOVE reading your thoughts--KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
ReplyDeleteHaha thank you! I'm pretty sure I would piss waaaay too many people off if I ran for president!
DeleteI was just WAITING for you to blog about this chick-fil-a mess! Perfectly said babe. Perfectly said. All about freedom of speech, but when people use the bible to, and I'll use your words, "rank sins" it makes me QUIIIVVVEEERR!!!! Being with the same sex is just as equal a sin in our Bible as sleeping with someone before marriage. And I am REALLY shocked that more people didn't get that "dig" about they are married to their first wives. I wonder how many of these people supporting what he said about being gay are divorced themselves???? Am I missing something? Almost every person I know that has posted "chick-fil-a support" on facebook is divorced. Cathey also gives money to, and is part of, anti-gay "hate" organizations. These organizations categorize "gay people" in the same group as people who have sex with animals. This makes me sick. I just don't think we should pick and choose what parts of the bible we are going to focus on and judge people by. I support LOVE and EQUALITY. We will all answer to God one day, and he is the only one who should do the judging.
ReplyDeleteWell thank you! I tried to stay out of it, but you know me...I read all the ignorance I could stand! This is what is wrong with our country. Everybody is more concerned with being right than what really matters! It makes me want to scream...I don't know what I did before I had a blog to vent! Haha
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