I was born that way!

***Before you read this post, I know there is more to say and explain but take time to think about the little written below***

The news and media has become a sick soup of racism, sexism, and homophobia (among other things). These three -isms seem to be bastions of hatred and polarity. It's like our forefather's should be quoted as saying,  "We, the American people, will build our nation on the prejudice of color, sex, and sexuality."  In a more frightening platitude is that in our post-enlightenment, twenty-first century musings we have begun to think that we are beyond certain forms of hatred.

We have a black president therefore we are no longer racist. We had the women's rights movement of the 70s and 80s so men and women are equal. Gays are everywhere in the media so its only a matter of time before everything is hunky dorry.

The truth of the matter is that hate has gone so far underground we have become silent, blind, and all together ignorant of its presence all around us. There are many theories as to why people hate and "other" each other. I don't want to theorize but offer an alternative idea: what would happen if we paid less attention with issues of creation?

FOR EXAMPLE: A Female, queer, person of color was as Lady Gaga famously says, "born this way".  (Even for those transgender folks there is an inherent idea that one was born in the wrong body. Although they can transform their physical appearance later on in life any transgender person will tell you that they were born in the wrong body.)

We point the finger so much at God's creation. When we say "I hate your skin color" we are really saying, "I hate the way God made you!" When we say, "I hate your sexuality" we are saying "God made you wrong!" When we say "Your sex can't do that" we are telling them "God didn't make you good enough."

We can change things like hunger, homelessness, even health. We can move resources around and create economic systems that help people. Yet, we are caught in this cycle of hating God's creation. We hate what we cannot change.

Genesis 1 tells us over and over again that God created and call it good. For those who like to literally interpret the Bible lets live out this concept: God's creation is good! What humans create is where things get messy. We create hate, poverty, health disparity, war, violence, hunger, inequality, global warming....etc.

We should declare: "I was born this way and God calls it good". We should point our fingers and equally declare: "You were born that way and God thinks you are good...and so do I."

Why don't we stop focusing on things we can't change and do something about the things we can!