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IF IT WEREN’T FOR THIS PESKY THING CALLED LOVE,
I COULD BE A LOT MORE LIBERAL
I recently
saw this post on Facebook. It was preceded by a comment to introduce it:
"Ah...common
sense ?? Too much for many people to understand...”
Here is the
post:
Don’t like
gay marriages? Don’t get one
Don’t like cigarettes?
Don’t smoke them.
Don’t like
alcohol? Don’t drink it.
Don’t like
drugs? Don’t do them.
Don’t like
porn? Don’t watch it.
Don’t like
sex? Don’t do it.
Don’t like
abortions? Don’t get one.
Don’t like
your rights taken away?
Don’t take
someone else’s away.
When I read
it, there were two additional comments, both agreeing with the post. One of them simply said, “truth.”
Usually, I
do not quickly comment on a post that someone makes. Facebook people are often
pretty touchy, and if you make a comment that in any way disagrees with what was
said, you very soon find yourself in a discussion, and sometimes a rather testy
one. I don’t like to be in one of these. Besides, these back-and-forths seldom lead
to anything constructive. I am actually just a peaceful man. I’m not looking for
a fight.
Because of
this, I at first did not comment, but the problem was that this post really
began to bother me. In some ways, it is a commentary on the direction that our
culture is heading. Actually we have already traveled a good ways down this
road.
After about
a day I went back to it and made a comment. I tried to make it non-confrontational....