According to
press reports,
Rick Santorum on Friday proposed amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage … as part of a broad appeal to social conservatives in his race for the GOP presidential nomination.
Of course, a side effect of this strategy would be to make himself completely unelectable in a general election against Barack Obama.
This is another example of how some Republicans amuse me. They can berate libertarians for being so dogmatic and inflexible as to be unelectable, then praise someone like Santorum for doing exactly the same thing. Apparently such impractical dogmatism is acceptable when it comes to homosexuals, but not free markets.
‘Tis a pity.
Once again, a nominally small government politician has shot himself in the big toe by jumping into completely irrelevant social issues.
Ken Buck halted his political momentum when he compared homosexuality with alcoholism on Meet the Press. (See “Buck’s remarks spur backlash in close senate race.”)
The inconsistency between a belief in small government and a belief that adults’ private lives is the government’s business is startling.
When asked about homosexuality, a politician should say, “I’m not concerned with other peoples’ sex lives, and it sure as hell isn’t the governments’ business.”
If your religion makes it your business, the better tactic is to use the love of your god to change things, not the brute force and compulsion of the state.
What would Jesus do?
As a private institution, the church and school have, and should have, the legal right to accept whomever they chose into their membership.
That is not the issue here. The issue is Christianity.
Did Jesus only teach to believers? No, that kind of defeats the point.
This church could have taken the opportunity to immerse this child in a loving Christian environment. They chose not to do so. They shunned an innocent child.
What would Jesus do in this situation?
He told us: “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Matthew 19:14 
