Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities by Chris Kluwe
Authors: Chris Kluwe
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torment he or she has been subjected to because of your example?
Do you presume to speak for God, Archbishop Nienstedt? Will you tell these children, faithful children who attend Sunday school and earnestly pray every day, that they are somehow less than others in God’s eyes? Will you grasp that millstone, Archbishop Nienstedt, clasp it all the way to the bottom, clutching at the heavy weight of earthly power and influence, even as it drags you down?
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
“Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
Tell me, Archbishop, Pope, what purpose does it serve for the Church to attempt to influence the affairs of a secularstate? The federal benefits under law that are currently denied gay couples certainly fall under the realm of things that are Caesar’s, don’t they? No one is forcing the Catholic Church to marry gay couples if that is not the Church’s wish. You can keep the sanctity of Catholic marriage solely between heterosexual couples if you feel that is what’s required (again, though, I caution you on the dangers of presumed infallibility). All I am asking is for you to extend the open hand of tolerance, not the closed fist of fear and hate. As American citizens, we respect everyone’s right to practice whatever religion (if any) he or she chooses to. Haven’t we learned enough from the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Talibans of the world? What does it benefit the Church to attempt to influence secular policy in this country, especially when that policy is a denial of some people’s basic human rights? Will you now assume Caesar’s throne, grasping the ephemera of worldly power and control while forsaking the eternal kingdom of Heaven?
All I ask of you, Archbishop Nienstedt, and of you, Pope Benedict XVI, is that you practice that most basic teaching found in the Bible—empathy. If you strike me, I shall turn the other cheek. If you ask me to walk with you for a mile, I will go with you two. If you ask me to respect your faith, your beliefs, then all I ask is that you do the same for everyone else. For is that not the most pertinent of Jesus’s teachings, and one that everyone, no matter his religion, can strive to achieve?
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Thisis the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
“On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Some Other People Have Even More Trouble with Logic
This piece was originally written in response to an opinion letter penned to the
Minneapolis Star Tribune
by one Mr. Riley Balling, an attorney (I’m assuming he has paperwork to back up that claim somewhere).
Balling’s point can be summed up in the following paragraph from his editorial: “For many of us who favor traditional marriage, marriage is about raising children in a healthy environment. Thus, any change to the definition of marriage affects our marriage. Our ‘traditional’ marriages and the children they produce are our greatest source of happiness, and we desire that our children will live in a world that will promote their ability to make the same choices that brought us happiness.”
You can find this piece at http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/171613511.html . If you don’t want to bother looking it up (and Idon’t blame you if you don’t), he basically said, “WARGLEBLARGLE GAY PEOPLES ARE RUININ’ MY MARRIAGES” and then forgot to provide examples.
Dear Mr. Balling,
I read your opinion piece in today’s
Star Tribune,
and I would like to take a brief moment to offer you some assistance in your future writing endeavors. I can only
Do you presume to speak for God, Archbishop Nienstedt? Will you tell these children, faithful children who attend Sunday school and earnestly pray every day, that they are somehow less than others in God’s eyes? Will you grasp that millstone, Archbishop Nienstedt, clasp it all the way to the bottom, clutching at the heavy weight of earthly power and influence, even as it drags you down?
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
“Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
Tell me, Archbishop, Pope, what purpose does it serve for the Church to attempt to influence the affairs of a secularstate? The federal benefits under law that are currently denied gay couples certainly fall under the realm of things that are Caesar’s, don’t they? No one is forcing the Catholic Church to marry gay couples if that is not the Church’s wish. You can keep the sanctity of Catholic marriage solely between heterosexual couples if you feel that is what’s required (again, though, I caution you on the dangers of presumed infallibility). All I am asking is for you to extend the open hand of tolerance, not the closed fist of fear and hate. As American citizens, we respect everyone’s right to practice whatever religion (if any) he or she chooses to. Haven’t we learned enough from the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the Talibans of the world? What does it benefit the Church to attempt to influence secular policy in this country, especially when that policy is a denial of some people’s basic human rights? Will you now assume Caesar’s throne, grasping the ephemera of worldly power and control while forsaking the eternal kingdom of Heaven?
All I ask of you, Archbishop Nienstedt, and of you, Pope Benedict XVI, is that you practice that most basic teaching found in the Bible—empathy. If you strike me, I shall turn the other cheek. If you ask me to walk with you for a mile, I will go with you two. If you ask me to respect your faith, your beliefs, then all I ask is that you do the same for everyone else. For is that not the most pertinent of Jesus’s teachings, and one that everyone, no matter his religion, can strive to achieve?
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Thisis the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
“On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Some Other People Have Even More Trouble with Logic
This piece was originally written in response to an opinion letter penned to the
Minneapolis Star Tribune
by one Mr. Riley Balling, an attorney (I’m assuming he has paperwork to back up that claim somewhere).
Balling’s point can be summed up in the following paragraph from his editorial: “For many of us who favor traditional marriage, marriage is about raising children in a healthy environment. Thus, any change to the definition of marriage affects our marriage. Our ‘traditional’ marriages and the children they produce are our greatest source of happiness, and we desire that our children will live in a world that will promote their ability to make the same choices that brought us happiness.”
You can find this piece at http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/171613511.html . If you don’t want to bother looking it up (and Idon’t blame you if you don’t), he basically said, “WARGLEBLARGLE GAY PEOPLES ARE RUININ’ MY MARRIAGES” and then forgot to provide examples.
Dear Mr. Balling,
I read your opinion piece in today’s
Star Tribune,
and I would like to take a brief moment to offer you some assistance in your future writing endeavors. I can only
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