I'm not getting involved here. Seriously! But thank you to the humane among you.
And talking of Christians, please let's not tar them all with the same brush. Jesus' message, aside from some era-appropriate weirdness, was basically about truth, justice, equality, love and kindness. He despised greed and hypocrisy, and he cared about the poor.
I am not a Christian, but I grew up drenched in the stuff because of going to school in England where we had scripture twice a week in school, and hymns and a reading from the Bible every morning. (No separation of church and state there.) And I'm glad I carry that knowledge with me for many reasons. As I child I thought of Jesus as an early socialist--of the purest kind, unmessed-up by more recent dogma--and I still do to some degree.
Today, there are many, many faith groups trying to get back to Christian basics. Actually, there are Christians across the board, in mainstream denominations such as Roman Catholicism and the Episcopal church, as well as other organizations, who tirelessly, day in, day out, work for social justice.
And since for some reason I get e-mails from some of these groups, here's a
link to one that absolutely believes in the bottomline kindness of Jesus' message.
I need to add, as a member of the poorer class, that if it hadn't been for Obamacare (the ACA), I'd be sunk. The cost of my benefits was cut in half when I signed up for it.
All I can say, finally, is that, when it comes to human rights, equality means equality. Period.
Charlotte