The log in our eye

Matthew 7:3 -- "Why do you see the splinter that's in your brother's or sister's eye, but don't notice the log in your own eye?"

Good question. And, by the way, it's hard to see with that log in my eye.

I've done some thinking recently about the now famous social media. Maybe, just maybe, we've always hated each other in this country, but I never noticed until social media came along. Now, the other side of the aisle is "nuts" and "crazy" and "vile" and all sorts of things. No one can simply disagree with a political position any longer. Now one must be the next thing to demonic if one doesn't agree with you.

How did this become the norm?

It seems to me that until we can reach a stage where we are much more concerned about our own difficulties and mistakes and wrongs and sins, we are never going to advance.

Take for example the recent uproar about Kirk Cameron. Former "Growing Pains" star Cameron's comments on homosexuality and gay marriage, made Friday on CNN's "Pier Morgan Tonight," have drawn a rapid response from GLAAD. Cameron said he thought homosexuality was "unnatural." "I think that it's detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization," the actor told Morgan. Cameron, who is an evangelical Christian, also spoke out against gay marriage.

"Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either," Cameron said. "So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a statement Saturday in response to the actor's appearance on the CNN program. "In this interview, Kirk Cameron sounds even more dated than his 1980s TV character," Herndon Graddick, senior director of programs at GLAAD, wrote "Cameron is out of step with a growing majority of Americans, particularly people of faith who believe that their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters should be loved and accepted based on their character and not condemned because of their sexual orientation."

Two things here: He was asked the question, and I would assume he was asked the question for a very pointed reason, that being so he would answer the question in that manner and so GLAAD would be able to respond. Two, I strongly pray that people of faith ALL believe their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters should be loved and accepted based on their character and not condemned because of their sexual orientation.

Two sides of an issue, huh? The problem is perspective, I think. No where in Cameron's statement do I read a condemnation. No where in GLAAD's statement do I read understanding that people of faith can love and accept but still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

There is one more difference, I might add. There are people of faith who believe the Bible says what it says, and there are people of faith who believe there were reasons for it to say it that preclude the meaning in the first place. Again, two sides.

This I know: pointing the finger of judgment at someone else, when you don't have any more of an answer than does the rest is simply idiotic. Oops. See how this works. It is simply wrong. Yeah, that's what I meant to write.