MORALITY: Look closer, Christians

I’ve been heart broken to read articles of adults showing up at libraries to yell and show signs of condemnation to children and their parents entering the Post Falls library to participate in arts and crafts.

Even more heart broken to read the comments from so-called “pastors” and “Christians” who pen nothing of what Jesus taught us to be in this world. That this community has elected people to public office that call a children’s program “Satanic” calls into question the mental status of said elected officials.

I was a part of this community when we stood on sidewalks and turned our backs on the Aryan Nation march. This community has always stood for the love Jesus called us to share. Jesus taught us that we have no license to throw stones, cast moral condemnation, or demand to remove the speck of sawdust from our neighbor’s eye until we remove the plank from our own eye. That this small contingent of heretics targeting our children screams that we who love Christ and our neighbors as ourselves must stand up to protect them.

Spare me the tired and hackneyed rhetoric about “love the sinner, hate the sin.” It’s an insult to us all. Jesus didn’t give us license to judge others’ moral worth or police who they love, or what pronouns they use.

This isn’t a war Jesus asked us to wage. This is hatred and bigotry, pure and simple. To claim it is in Jesus’s name is just blasphemy.

KATSY KLINE

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