Tara At Random

When I was in high school we had a debate in History class.  I forget the specific topic now, but it had to do with race.  I was debating an African American classmate who said that my ancestors had oppressed hers.
Furious, I countered that in fact while her ancestors were being enslaved in America, my ancestors were in Ireland being oppressed by the British, and how dare she make such an accusation.  I thought I'd really made my point....

This is going to come as a surprise to a lot of you.  It will seem like a total betrayal of my views, but I've had some time to reflect and I just can't ignore the simple moral equation at work here any longer:
I firmly believe that we should stop providing funding for insurance or research of erectile dysfunction aids in all forms....

There's about 150 think pieces right now about whether wearing a safety pin is a great show of solidarity or an empty gesture of the privileged.  This is not one of those, although the safety pin movement did set the train of thought out of the station...

 “I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
That quote is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, though my research seems to dispute its veracity somewhat.   But whether he said it or not, it's a truth.
American Christians, we need to talk....