“Jesus
wept,” came the dramatic response from the right reverend Mike Huckabee: swiftly,
decisively…almost as if it had been rehearsed. Or
pre-written. Or pre-ordained.
Surely, something horrible had happened in the world.What was it?
Another slaughtering of innocent school children?
Genocide in Rwanda? Could it have been that Huckabee finally realized that there are almost
50 million Americans living in poverty? Kids going to bed hungry every night…people choosing between food and
healthcare? Did the prayers of half a
million homeless people reach him in a dream? Did somebody slip him the
information that there are 218,171 people in prison in the U.S., with
47.1% of those being for “drug offenses”?
Maybe it hit him that the divorce rate in America (because, let’s face
it, Jesus, being the blue-eyed, fair-haired Anglo-Saxon we’ve all seen actual
photographs of, cares only about what happens in the US of A) is at 50
percent. That’s half of all the blessed
unions between one man and one woman – right down the old porcelain
throne. Surely, some of those things
might cause Jesus to be a little sad.
Maybe shed a tear or two…
Seems
not. Here’s the Huckster’s entire quote:
“My thought on the SCOTUS ruling that determined that same sex marriage is
okay: ‘Jesus wept.’”
Oh.
So,
according to Huck, the Prince of Peace; the Lamb of God; that blue-eyed,
fair-haired prophet who said “Do unto others whatever you would like them to do
to you,” is sobbing now because my nephew is one step closer to being able
share the same rights under the law as I have.
What a travesty. What a horrible
thing to happen.
What’s
next? Black folk and women being allowed to vote?
Can
somebody ‘splain to me in simple terms (because I am a simple man) exactly why
there are so many heterosexuals so remarkably outraged about this? How does it affect those of us who have a
more “traditional” marriage? Because,
truthfully, I don’t see how it has any bearing on me – not in the least. Now, it would be easy to understand the
outrage if I had been born more partial to boys; lived my whole life pretending
I liked girls; married one, just to be accepted as “normal.” I might then feel some jealousy for being
cheated out of the life I wanted – the life that others of the same persuasion
will soon get to have. But, again,
speaking for myself, I’ve always been completely comfortable with the boy/girl
thing. So…no outrage.
Some
might cite the tax and insurance implications as a problem. But, “Jesus?” Really? If He is going to weep, does anybody really
think it’s going to be over some same-sex couples in the United States of America
getting the same tax benefits and insurance coverage as the rest of us? Do we really want to take the stroll down the
very long list of things this country does with its money, just to see how many
of those things might give him better reason to cry? No. I didn’t think so.
Now,
for mocking Governor Huckabee for his frivolous tweet (Doesn’t that sound like
an insult? “You frivolous tweet!”), I have been accused by some of mocking
Jesus. Anybody who knows me knows I’m
not easily offended – but I find that accusation repulsive. For that to be true, Huckabee would have to
actually be speaking FOR Jesus.- and I don’t think that’s the case. So…
Thanks for the two words, Mike.
I’ve got two words for you, but, unfortunately, they would only let me
print one of them here.
1 comment:
Love it, wish I could write like you.
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