The Funniest Thing Happened Today...

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King -- indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history -- were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

-Barack Obama

I find it funny when people describe the fight for gay marriage as something similar to the fight to end slavery or to establish civil rights. There is no way to compare the two events because unlike today's issue, abolitionism or civil rights was more of an experience bounded in the Christian faith, not just an education or tolerance lesson.

Second, I find it also funny that people can't describe or are unwilling to describe what they truly believe in. We talk and discuss in terms of moral neutrality and relativism. However, what we have created from our neutrality is power plays and a marginalization of the opposing view, rather than a discussion to persuade or at the very least to establish true tolerance