Can't we all just get along?

Well the votes have been counted and Scott Brown has been elected as the new Senator from Massachusetts. What it will mean for healthcare and the rest of President Obama's agenda only time will tell. But what I take out of all of it is that we will probably never all agree on what needs to be done, let alone how to do it. The tragedy of recent politics has been the demonization of opposition. Even on the most serious of so-called "social issues" like abortion most people agree on their desire for the best for people. They just disagree on what constitutes the best. After all, if you do not believe that unborn children are humans (a stand I frankly do not understand), then you would not want to see someone having to carry a child that is not yet human. It would be a choice. What I am saying is that we can continue to disagree - I, for one will not surrender on abortion unless someone can give me definitive proof that an unborn child is not a human being, something which will be quite difficult in light of scripture - but I do not have to assume the worst about the motivations of those who oppose me. The election of Scott Brown shows that people are seldom as monolithic as some politicians want to believe. Fortunately, in the US, the politicians have to keep going back to the voters. There is nothing like a jolt of reality to upset our applecarts!

Pastor Ken