It is very chal­leng­ing to keep gov­ern­ment and faith in proper rela­tion­ship with each other. Our Con­sti­tu­tion man­dates sep­a­ra­tion, while our lead­ers present a tapes­try of faiths — sub­tle per­haps like Lutheran ver­sus Methodist — or vivid like Chris­t­ian, Jew­ish, Islamic, Bud­dhist, Hindu, Deist and so on.

Inde­pen­dent of how one may feel about gay rights issues, the core mes­sage of Steve Simon’s state­ment is one of under­stand­ing and com­pas­sion as manda­tory for our healthy soci­ety, and I whole­heart­edly agree. For per­sonal rea­sons he chose to ref­er­ence his own faith, while deliv­er­ing this truly uni­ver­sal message:

There is a place — and arguably a “pur­pose” — for every­one in our soci­ety that tran­scends any one belief sys­tem that may try to describe it. This to me is what a cel­e­brat­ing won­der­ful life is all about.

Ref­er­ences

Why Does God Keep Mak­ing Gay Peo­ple? | MoveOn.Org

Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Sky
Filed under: Spirituality