Pick Your Own Morality
(I know that school has begun, and that I am unemployed, and that much has happened since my last entry, of which I might still cover via topics. But with particular things happening, I decide today to take a shift and write a bit about a topic that I've alluded to here, and seems to have begun to surround me more and more. So, I"ll wait with that and write about this instead ... ) Last April, someone I greatly respected and admired had a massive 'moral fall'. Last June, someone else that I admire and respect made some moral choices that disconnected with what he claimed for his truth. And now, this month, the very vocal Christian leader Ted Haggard has also revealed that he has been living a double life - speaking out against homosexuality on one side of his mouth and engaging in these same kinds of acts behind closed doors. These are only three such Christian examples, but I am certain that there are many more that populate any given pew on any given Sunday that can...