So I’ve been called out. Very well. Here is where I stand.
I am a Christian. I am an American. I am straight. I am a Republican. I am a conservative. I am all those things. Does this mean because I am those things, I hate gays and lesbians and will attack their way of life? Absolutely not!
It is not for me to make the final call. That is between each of you and God. Does it mean that I will not make small conversations about life or whatever because of how my personal beliefs have shaped who I am? Absolutely not!
I work at a place where each individual’s skills and talents are paramount in furthering the accomplishments of the organization. I do not care if a person is black, white, male or female, straight or gay, as long as they can contribute to the team effort, that is what counts.
Whatever rights the GLBT community have won have come by changing public opinion, one person at a time, and that is how those who had to fight for civil rights did it forty years ago. It followed the bellweather decisions of Brown v. Board of Education, and so it must follow with Lawrence v. Texas.
But all those battles which were fought then, and are being fought now, pale in comparison to the darkness which we finally woke up to on 9/11. Christianity is NOT the enemy. Republicans are NOT the enemy. Democrats are NOT the enemy. Straight people are NOT the enemy. Gays and lesbians are NOT the enemy.
The enemy is that group of people who insist on spreading their religion by force around the world. They are the Islamofascists. They are even more dangerous than the Nazis and Communists were during World War II and the Cold War. To the Islamofascists, there is no such thing as free will. There is only submission. They want to take away the one thing God gave each and every one of us and I will not stand for that!
I was born at Gitmo. I lived overseas for five years; three in Naples, Italy, and two in Asmara, Ethiopia (now the capital of Eritrea). I saw for myself the despondent conditions which cause people to make choices which are terrible and extreme. It made me very grateful I was born an American.
So when 9/11 happened, I resolved right then and there to fight that fight against the Islamofascists FOR all of us. I don’t care who you are, where you come from, or whatever path your life has followed. I will use the talents God gave me, my writing and my speaking, to fight that darkness which is Islamofascism.
That is where I stand.

You know, as our society becomes more and more spiritually improverished, it is like a forest drying out in the heat of summer.  Kind of a “social conflagration”.... like in Yugoslavia, or brought misery to Northern Ireland (again) and destroyed New Orleans.

Amen Macker!