Breaking Down Walls

Published on August 28, 2004 By Gideon MacLeish In Religion

As most of you who read my blogs regularly know, I am a fairly conservative Christian.

As many of you also know, I am very staunchly against the federal marriage amendment.

The latter position has brought me a whole lot of flames from my one other blogsite by many of my contemporaries. So, when I received a reply in my email to my article on that site today for my piece (which I reprinted here, entitled "Why we should NOT Support the Federal Marriage Amendment: a Conservative View), I held my breath. I decided to open it anyway, and the letter was as follows:

re: Why we should not support the federal marriage amendment: a
conservative view

Thank God for a Christian person that seems to have sense, compassion,
sensibility and real intellectual foresight! I am a gay man, 38, and
although I am not religious, I was raised Jewish.
So, of course I take this whole marriage amendment thing quite to
heart. I also try not to make the comparison to Nazi Germany too much, but
it is frightening when goverment and especially a President starts to
speak out against a group of people.
Although it is a different era, and we have hopefully learned from past
history, it does NOT mean that other things cannot occur when we allow
a goverment and mean-spirited President/leader to start making moral
decisions.
I only wish that other Christian people held your viewpoint and behaved
in the truly Christian manner you seem to.
Thank you for your post...and may I as an agnostic say to you "God
bless you"?

Sincerely,
NG.

Now, I have to say, responses like that make my day. I have seen too many people with walls built up against Christianity over the course of my life; heck, I've BEEN one of them. I believe it is my responsibility as a Christian and as a minister to tear down those walls, to reach out to people as Christ would, and did, and to help them find healing.

I know I'm not perfect; far from it. But I believe that, at times like these, I'm on the right track.

signing off,

Gideon MacLeish
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Comments

historyishere

on Aug 28, 2004

As an agnostic with a lot of differing views from you, I have to say that I've found your discourse very civil around the subject of religion. You have sound judgment and you often preface your articles that might bring some controversy your way. And while religion is a part of many of your posts, it isn't in a didactic way, rather more a statement of your beliefs.... which I've always admired about your writing.

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 29, 2004

Thanks, history. It's always been my goal to present my opinion without disrespecting my readers, and I think I've managed to do that more often than not.

stevendedalus

on Aug 29, 2004

Thanks, history. It's always been my goal to present my opinion without disrespecting my readers, and I think I've managed to do that more often than not

Spoken like a true Christian. The Lord be with you.

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