July 24
To Bradley Birzer whose article reviewed a 1993 book by Gordon Wood that claims that almost all of the signers of the Declaration of Independence believed that the American Republic was dying. Part of the book covered what some of the founding fathers believed would be the cause of death of the Republic they created.
Aside from the book review, if I, like some of the founders who were quoted, was to share my biggest worry about America, it would be that too many Americans took their own PR about themselves and their country too seriously. By doing so, they have enacted too much of a cancel culture on tough love feedback that would provide life prolonging correction to the health of their own and the republic..
The being too serous about one's own PR about oneself and America is driven by gaining feelings of significance by feeling superior to others. That way of feeling significant dwells more in the subconscious of too many of us than in our own self-awareness. The way of feeling significant drives us to believe in and then unite around an imaginary self image that is both pompous and fragile. It is pompous is shown by how we want to see ourselves as compared to others. It is fragile because the alternative to feeling superior robs us of our sense of entitlement. And American history is full of Americans feeling entitled to that which belonged to others.
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July 27
To R. Scott Clark and Ed Whelan for Clark's blog article that quotes Whelan's article as it laments over a Tenth Circuit Court ruling that ruled that a graphic and website design company must offer its services of creating a wedding website for same sex couples because it does so for heterosexual couples. This appeared in Heidelblog.
Website for Ed Whelan's article
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/bonkers-tenth-circuit-ruling-against-free-speech/
For some Christian business people, it is horrible that the Courts demand that they treat same-sex couples the same way as they treat heterosexual couples. It is horrible for them that they demand that Christian businesses must regard same-sex couples as being equal to heterosexual couples. But such is life in a nation that is suppose to promote equality.
We should remember those Christians who used the Bible to support Jim Crow segregation. We should remember them because they tried to use the Scriptures to defend discrimination. The question we Christians must ask ourselves is, do we want society to regard and treat those from the LGBT community as equals or do we want society to have the right to marginalize those in the LGBT community by allowing people in the public square to discriminate against them?
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