Compromise? I certainly hope not.
by Matt | October 11th, 2007 |An article at The Washington Blade notes that some evangelicals have said they are now willing to work with progressives on issues such as marriage equality for LGBT people and abortion:
The Reverend Joel Hunter, who’s on the board of directors of the National Association of Evangelicals, says he believes “progress can be made for both sides without either of them sacrificing or compromising their values.”
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Hunter also believes that many evangelicals who oppose gay marriage would be willing to support expanding legal rights for same-sex couples.
See… I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all. Now, we have the group representative of the majority. The group that is (or at least was) so powerful that it put anti-gay marriage amendments on the ballot in state after state in 2004 and 2006. This is the group to which the Republican Party has continued to capitulate itself. This is the same group that has told me I’m going to hell, I should die, I deserve no rights and that I’m not worthy of God’s love.
And now they want to “work with” us?
Not only do they want to “work with” us, they want us to compromise. I’m sorry. I’m not going to accept watered-down versions of my God-given civil rights just so they can feel better about being “more Christ-like” after they, maybe, have started to figure out that if any group in America were going to be condemned, it would be them.
No compromise on my civil rights. No compromise with the oppressors. Not now. Not tomorrow.
3 Responses to “Compromise? I certainly hope not.”
I, for one, would be happy to work Rev Joel Hunter if he is indeed earnest in his desire to work in a way that would not cause me to compromise my values.
I don’t want to beat him into submission or shame him into going away. I want to work with him to build a better society. One where all people have equal rights and one where young mothers are fully supported.
I’d like to learn more about what he proposes.
By Brian on Oct 11, 2007
Yes… by all means… Talk with Rev. Hunter… dialogue and have a discussion on the issues, but my point was that I’m not going to lay down some of my rights in order to compromise.
He said, “progress can be made for both sides without either of them sacrificing or compromising their values.”
And then, the article said: “Hunter also believes that many evangelicals who oppose gay marriage would be willing to support expanding legal rights for same-sex couples.”
Dialogue is fine and I encourage it, but if the end result is going to be something along the lines of “you get civil unions only, because we can’t give you marriage” then I want no part of it because that would definitely be “sacrificing and compromising” not only my values but the rights I should already have.
Or, maybe, I’m just having one of those days where I feel like being antagonistic. lol
By Matt Comer on Oct 11, 2007