Women's Rights and the Religious Right

Where is all the pro-life love when a baby arrives and the mother needs assistance taking care of it, but the state cuts her benefits and the church shuns the mother because she may be unwed, etc, which happens more often than church folk want to admit. When the church actually steps up to the plate and takes an active role in supporting women & children like the Lord speaks about in the Bible, THEN maybe what the church has to say will mean more than just a bunch of hot air & hypocrisy.

Civility, Oh Civility, Wherefore Art Thou....

     I am continually amazed at the ignorance and disrespect directed at our President, women, at my brothers and sisters in the LGBT community, and my African American brothers and sisters. And the folks clamoring the loudest and speaking the most vile things on the planet, are those individuals from the church. Jesus did NOT advocate this behavior.  Period. His ONE and only commandment to us was to L.O.V.E. 

     I get that you may have fundamental differences in beliefs and that your religion taught you another lifestyle. But that does not give you the right to bash another human being verbally to get your point across or wear your pride like a cloak. Just because you have an opinion doesn't make you right. It just makes it right for YOUR life. Don't push your own choices on others, and if you profess to be a Christian and hope to bring others into the 'fold,' you may want to chill out because the hate you wear will be the repellant that drives souls away.

President Obama: "I could have been Trayvon"

I watched President Obama's presser today and was thankful for his transparency and sincerity. He didn't read from a teleprompter, but spoke from the heart. I could tell he has thought long about Trayvon's death, spoken with his daughters and the First Lady. Our country has a long way to go, but I will NOT stand back and stay silent while #haters disrespect. I was appalled to see the conservative tweeters start an onslaught of hateful speech directed at the President and his words, calling him at one point, the "Racist in Chief." Some folks have simply lost their mind. I am proud of my #President. I will stand with him, and will not keep silent when confronted 

with hate and judgment and disrespect. 

#LOVE

John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Matthew 7:12 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

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