Will

I found your entry to be moving and very sad. You seem like a kind man who's been burnt and/or used by some who lost sight of the fact that image-bearers of God are more valuable than a cause or issue. For that I'm really sorry; I'm sorry because I've done that in the past to others.
That said, does that mean we should shy away from speaking for what we know to be true? Do we shed our discernment because we've been wrong in the past? Bro, I couldn't help reading your story and concluding that it's made you a weaker voice for truth and justice. You have so little confidence that you can now only say with conviction that you oppose things like aparteid, poverty and slavery? Wow, that's really putting it all on the line for what you hold dear. So OK, you're also against Jerry Falwell and Randle Terry too. Big deal. I hope you're not impressed with that. They're both easy targets.
I'd like to know what you think of Reverend Jackson or Reverend Sharpton as you write about Dr. Falwell, partial birth abortion, the Gay Man Boy Love Association, reverse discrimination, whether we should go to war to stop the slavery you imply that you abhor in the Sudan, school vouchers for inner-city schools that are failing the poor and keeping them in poverty, what I should do when gay marriage finally becomes law and they demand to teach my kids how homosexuals have intercourse in their sex ed class, United Nations corruption and Burke's admonition about good men doing nothing. Will, this isn't politics to me, it's morality. Why you've chosen to not see things clearly, especially after what you've been through, amazes me.
Just because Solomon offered to split the baby doesn't mean we should take that option. The truth doesn't have to reside between liberals and conservatives. It simply resides where it's always been. We learn and speak truth, compromise when we can and remember that the issue doesn't trump the individual. We do it in season and out. I fear that somehow you've turned truth on it's head and concluded that instead of loving others, we should find a way for others to love and feel good about us and somehow call that Christian. There's no honor in that and it will surely leave the world in a worse place than we found it.