friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
it requires us to see each other not as adversaries, not solely as competitors, but as neighbors. and we don t have to love our neighbor. that d be great if we did. but if everybody had loved their neighbor way back, jesus wouldn t have had to issue a commandment about it. you don t issue commandments about things people are already doing. we do have to respect that neighbor. part of respecting that neighbor is being able to go to a school in the united states of america and not worry about being shot by a combat weapon purchased by somebody, who i think i m right about this, couldn t buy beer legally. couldn t buy beer. couldn t do so many other things in the state of texas. those laws and regulations are in place in texas for what reasons? could not they re not old enough. do those things, jon, could get a weapon of war.
he spoke of democracy as a covenant, that we have to see each other as neighbors and not as adversaries. and we should love each other. if everybody loved each other all the time jesus wouldn t have had to make the commandment. you know, you don t command someone to do something they re already doing. but what we re seeing is this ferocious and wonderful human spirit to be free, both at home in the united states in this imperfect, complicated, disputatious country and this remarkable people in europe who is standing up against an autocrat who is going down in history as a butcher. why are they standing up? they want to determine their own destiny. they don t want to be the
willie: i do. i still do. and i m not really good at any of them except maybe dominos. - you were in the air force. - that s right. that did not work out well for you, did it? well, not really. i wasn t really cut out to take orders, yeah. harvey: yeah, you don t seem like a military guy to me. no, no, no, and they realized that pretty quick. why d you do it? i did it to get off the streets and get some food and hospitalization and clothes and all that good stuff, because when you join the air force, there s a lot of good things that you get with it. i also got out of there with some time at baylor university paid for by the air force. speaking of baylor, did you really say, i majored in dominos ? yeah. and my baylor song didn t really go over that well. jesus was a baylor bear but jesus wouldn t cut his hair his helmet didn t fit but he didn t give a ( bleep ) cause jesus was a baylor bear
discredited against gays civil rights issue, that is what makes this so so different. this law does not empower discrimination against anyone. this law simply says the government and the courts need to take into account our religious freedom. that is an important principle of american pluralism. the situation right now with this overreaction it s not just that jesus wouldn t recognize this jefferson wouldn t recognize this either. we need to have this open public square where we re able to come into it with our religious consequences and convictions in tact. robert back to you. whether you want to calling it howling at the moon or overreaction this has enlisted an emotional response. this is a political issue. the rhetoric has gotten so totally heated and i m wondering, do critics have a fair point when politics is truly and emotions have been injected into both sides of