LOVE, SEX, RELIGION, & POLITICS

Someone once asked me "What is God?" I replied "God is Love." She shot back "God is an emotion?" No, Love is much more than emotion. Love is a fundamental Principle of life the universe and everything. Emotion is just one way that Love is manifested. Love is also manifested as life, beauty, creativity, order, unselfish action, obedience to laws, and countless other forms. The Love I'm talking about is absolutely pure, unconditional, and absolute. That is God. The 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians describes the attributes of Love: "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." Yet how often do we attribute these characteristic to God? I think one of the hardest things for people t...

It was reported in the local paper that the city manager of Largo, Florida is to lose his job because he plans to have a sex change operation. I'm not going to pass judgement on the firing. The city is closer to the situation than I am, and may have information I don't have. Reports indicate a crowd of 500 people showed up to the City Commission meeting to express their opinions. One was a Baptist minister. Here's how our paper reported his comment: ' 'If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he'd want him terminated,'' said Pastor Ron Saunders of Largo's Lighthouse Baptist Church. ''Make no mistake about it.'' Is he talking about the Jesus who dined with sinners? Is he talking about the Jesus who let a sinful woman wash his feet at a dinner party? I don't think so. I don't think Jesus would have put someone out of a job they had executed faithfully for fourteen years for this. What I see in Largo, Florida is nothin...