There’s a quote I read somewhere running through my mind right now, about how the way you get to peace is to work for peace…

Mississippi legislator fears for life after comments about gay marriage

A pastor turned Mississippi legislator is fearing for his life after activists say he endorsed the killing of gay men on his Facebook page.

Rep. Andy Gipson cited a Bible passage earlier this month to slam President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage, saying he believed that homosexuals shouldn’t have the right to marry.

“The only opinion that counts is God’s,” he said, then quoted a Bible passage that he interprets to say that being gay is a sin.

He also quoted another passage:

“If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”

The man behind the pulpit cites a passage from Leviticus, the one saying that God detests homosexuals and gives everyone a free pass to kill them, and now he’s worrying about death threats. Worry’s kinda like hindsight isn’t it…always 20/20. Here’s the thing about death threats…they’re worse then bullets.   Bill Cosby gave a talk once about inner city gun violence in which he said that once you pull the trigger you can’t call that bullet back.   Death threats are like that but worse.   You can’t call them back and they multiply faster then tribbles.   Some of them might come back home to you.   Some of them might go zipping off to find people you love.   I think the bible had something to say about that too…preacher…   For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind…

Ah…here’s what I was looking for…

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ends and means.   Ends and means.   Look at your means…there’s your ends.   All you pulpit thumpers out there, pounding away, waving your arms at your flocks about the homosexual menace…do you not understand you are talking about your neighbors…and all the people in your pews looking back at you, hanging on your every word as you wave the bible around like a damn trophy…it’s their neighbors too that you’re babbling about.   Don’t you get that?   Their neighbors.   And their kin.   Their homosexual children.   Their homosexual brothers and sisters.   Their homosexual aunts, uncles, cousins.   Their kin.   That blood that verse talks about, the stuff that’s on the heads of homosexuals…that’s their blood too you moron! And yours…assuming you’ve got any in you.