Acting in Love to Support All Love

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Christine Organ
Author, freelance writer, and blogger at Random Reflectionz
Posted: 01/21/2013 11:11 am

Today we celebrate a man. A humble man, but an inspired man. A beaten man, but a brave man. A pragmatic man, but hopeful man.

As we celebrate the courageousness of Martin Luther King, Jr. to act in the face of injustice, I can't help but worry that, were he still alive today, he would actually be saddened by our nation's tolerance -- not our tolerance of diversity, but our tolerance of exclusion and injustice. For as he said, "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Yet that is just what so many of us continue to do today when we support religions that promote injustice and exclusion.

The number of Americans who believe that homosexuality is a sin is at an all-time low, according to studies conducted by LifeWay Research. In fact, the percentage of Americans who believe that homosexual behavior is a sin dropped a full seven points from the previous year's survey -- from 44 percent to 37 percent. Yet, the question begs: Are these same Americans who do not believe that homosexuality is a sin still supporting a church that does?

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