What we share

Another entry that has been sitting around for a while, this one dated February 20, 2010 at 8:15 am

This blog entry has been percolating in my head for many months, although this is the first time it has met text.

One of the things that I think has been sadly lost in our society is celebrating what we share. Too often in our daily lives we jump to identifying what is different and what divides us from others. This is useful in our daily lives, but it is also hurtful. Too often when we’re identifying our differences we often approach identifying what divides us as a search to identify where we will have our battles.

I read Ted Olson’s Conservative Defense of Gay Marriage and I cried. Notwithstanding its exceptional eloquence I was moved that someone who on first glance should be one of my staunchest political enemies was espousing a stance which I wholeheartedly agreed with, but one which also came from a place of true honesty within his beliefs and values.