It is politics as usual for both parties. One wants to legislate morality and the other wants to legislate compassion. Insanity. Both play the God card. Both are half way right. We should have morality and we should have compassion. But Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." That means quite simply that we cannot legislate one side or the other of the biblical injunctions.
I happen to believe in both concepts since both are biblically grounded. It is therefore nonsense for people on either side of the debate to abuse the other side for the folly of their beliefs. There is one item, however, that is not biblically grounded and that is abortion. Leaving that aside, and please don't, we must stop the insanity of full scale assaults on our opponents viewpoints.
We are people and all people have different perspectives. We have a common nation where we are trying our best to rip apart the fabric of unity. Somewhere in all the rhetoric it is essential that we find common ground. Can't we be compassionate and moral at the same time. Apparently not! Why not?
The reason is more simple than it sounds. It is because Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." This world is governed by people, regular, ordinary, sinful people with regular, ordinary, sinful minds and self directed desires. That community of people cannot create God's kingdom on earth. It is arrogant of both sides to even think so. So, it is time to find common ground that will genuinely benefit the most people and forget about forming a moral or compassionate Utopia. Perhaps the thought that we could actually work together for the common good is the most insane imagination of all.
