I'm telling you what you can expect from this president. For reasons that are at once different from and similar to yours I'm not a fan of Rick Warren myself. This is a man who believes that I am going to hell because I am not willing to worship his god-man. Today words from my liturgy passed through his unholy lips, and you can bet it felt like some blend of appropriation and condescension.
What he's got against you, he says out loud. What he's got against me, he says where he thinks I won't hear. I don't know which is better or worse, but regardless of what you may think of him, I'll wager that at least you don't imagine he's trying to game you.
But there was something that bugged me about what you said on the matter, so I will make this plain: you do not have the market cornered on having people trying to kill you because of who you are. You may be correct that it is still more acceptable to say "faggot" than "kike" in polite company, but these sentiments only ever go underground in any case. They never disappear. Take it from me - my city is home to Panzerfaust Records, and my synagogue has had Neo-Nazi leaflets placed on the windshields of the cars in its parking lot.
The problem is, some things come in packages. If I want to work on Gay Rights issues, chances are I'm doing it alongside people who would regard it as just punishment for the occupation if 6 million of my co-religionists got nuked. And if I want to work on Israel advocacy, I'm often stuck with people who would demand that each of us make impossible changes to who we are. It's distasteful and unpleasant in both directions. But guess what? These are both issues I work on, and I'll take my partners where I can get them.
And I won't take my eyes off of them either. Because I never know when they'll turn on me.
It's not about a difference of opinion. It's about keeping your enemies near.
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I'm telling you what you can expect from this president. For reasons that are at once different from and similar to yours I'm not a fan of Rick Warren myself. This is a man who believes that I am going to hell because I am not willing to worship his god-man. Today words from my liturgy passed through his unholy lips, and you can bet it felt like some blend of appropriation and condescension.
What he's got against you, he says out loud. What he's got against me, he says where he thinks I won't hear. I don't know which is better or worse, but regardless of what you may think of him, I'll wager that at least you don't imagine he's trying to game you.
But there was something that bugged me about what you said on the matter, so I will make this plain: you do not have the market cornered on having people trying to kill you because of who you are. You may be correct that it is still more acceptable to say "faggot" than "kike" in polite company, but these sentiments only ever go underground in any case. They never disappear. Take it from me - my city is home to Panzerfaust Records, and my synagogue has had Neo-Nazi leaflets placed on the windshields of the cars in its parking lot.
The problem is, some things come in packages. If I want to work on Gay Rights issues, chances are I'm doing it alongside people who would regard it as just punishment for the occupation if 6 million of my co-religionists got nuked. And if I want to work on Israel advocacy, I'm often stuck with people who would demand that each of us make impossible changes to who we are. It's distasteful and unpleasant in both directions. But guess what? These are both issues I work on, and I'll take my partners where I can get them.
And I won't take my eyes off of them either. Because I never know when they'll turn on me.
It's not about a difference of opinion. It's about keeping your enemies near.