This may not be a popular opinion, but…
The conservative side of the political spectrum needs to be much more open in embracing what many would call “alternative“ lifestyles. I’m not saying we have to sell out Bible-based principles or anything like that on an individual level, of course not. What I am saying is that someone’s gender preference, sexual preference, race, political, or social identity, and anything in between — unless it’s pedophiles of course — needs to be, if not accepted, at least acknowledge and not vilified. Creating a hostile environment for people with reasonably legitimate liberal viewpoints, regardless of how we may feel about them personally, will never be the solution to showing people the overall superior merits of conservative thinking. We need to divide our thinking into three clear segments: Convictions, beliefs, and opinions. Realizing that 90% of everything we believe or think is really more opinion than hard fact or immutable principle. Somewhere in that 10% may be a hill to die on, but those are the things that we need to be careful about trotting out at random times, just to exclude people who don’t see things the way we do.
We (Conservatives) share much of the blame in all of this craziness that’s going on today. Instead of erecting a towering wall between “us and them,” we should be building bridges to the best of our ability. If they want to erect walls, that’s fine. There’s nothing we can do about it, and it’s a waste of our time to try.
I know much of this is probably wishful thinking, and likely too little, too late at this point in the game, but it’s never too late to start.
“A word fitly spoken”, and all that jazz.
Proverbs 25:8-12
