Fairness - The Commentary

Whatever the cause – whether it’s a No Kings Rally or a display of LGBTQ+ Pride – there are numerous personal reasons to march, protest, and demonstrate. Some are based upon our own self-worth and personal values while others are guaranteed to produce frustration, burn-out, and bitterness in the long run. Further, if we take on leadership roles – particularly for demographics with a history of being marginalized and demeaned in a culture – various conscious or unconscious expectations we’ve attached to leadership, whether healthy (for us) or unhealthy, are likely to eventually surface.   Sociological observers can almost predict the problems that result when anyone takes on activist leadership of oppressed groups who have a history of hurt and pain. So many movements and institutions seem to run into leadership issues when they're at their greatest strength. And the result is many of those issues cripple the very movements.   People aren’t used to examining their own past unhe...

The current U.S. administration has turned the use of religion into an art form. Their modus operandi is to mainstream the idea that “Christianity” truly means doing ones best to destroy those over which they want to feel superior. Even those who object to it all have adopted their language and call what they are doing “Christian” Nationalism as if to confirm that what these users of religion are calling for isn’t just one sectarian religious interpretation of everything historically that has been called Christian but somehow represents all or at least the truth of what “Christianity” is. The use of “Christianity” or any of the religions to support the powerful, those who wish to impose their beliefs on everyone else, and those who are protecting their own financial and publicity portfolios has a long worldwide history that’s as old as we have human records. And it actually doesn’t have its origins in any of the religions it uses. Yet people on most sides of debates about religions con...