Blue Truck, Red State: Horror in Colorado Springs

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Horror in Colorado Springs

Another gay club shot up: 5 dead, 25 or more injured. Nauseating.

The 22-year-old shooter is said to be the grandson of a MAGA state representative in California.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: Difficult to see, hear, read about this without shedding tears. So sick of this hate and violence and the refusal of lawmakers to end it, or at least get some control of guns. And for those who promote hate and violence to be sanctioned. I can go on....but enough.; November 20, 2022 at 6:07 PM
Russ Manley said...: The awful thing is, I am mentally sickened and outraged but tears won't come. My feelings are simply numb: a very sad comment on modern American life, where these *daily* massacres have overwhelmed our natural feelings.

It's so wrong, wrong, wrong: both the proliferation of guns (especially assault weapons) AND a culture that produces so many mass killers without a shred of conscience or remorse. In just my lifetime, we have gone from civilization to barbarism, it seems to me - and it just gets worse and worse.

I have more thoughts on this subject but no answers, so I'll stop right there.; November 21, 2022 at 9:09 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu