Nancy, there is a great battle in America right now. The conservative Christians are not content to live their own lives in religious freedom. Some of them insist on travelling great distances to attempt to inflict their belief systems on others who believe in different ways, and do so very crudely with their ugly picket signs and repulsive sentiments.
I think it is particularly rude to try to interfere with someone's funeral. The family is sad enough already. Goldwater's grandson Ross is homosexual, but has always been loved and accepted by his family. It seems particularly savage and intrusive to try to tell another family how to live when they are in mourning. Christianity is as Christianity does, I always say. Certainly, these picketers are not acting in a truly Christian way, and makes one wonder whether they have any clue about real spiritual values.
Groups like this make crystal clear, as well, that it is the conservative Christians who reject their homosexual children. Certainly not all of them do, but it is individuals in this group who do not understand that all children need to feel whole in order to survive and flourish. It also makes me wonder what the point of preventing every abortion is, and then cruelly rejecting a whole group of these children later, when they are teenagers, so that some of them have to live on the streets, and many of them commit suicide. |
