Super Tuesday

I just left the line to vote. This is the first time since moving here that I had seen a line that will last more than 5 minutes.

The picture above is one I took while dropping something off to a friend back in August. The heart your neighbor sign came from a group trying to reach out to neighbors. Their mission is, “during a year where neighborly love and values are tested through voting, we strive to bring neighbors together in love and harmony.”

On the surface, it’s a great idea. But I, for the life of me, cannot understand how someone can put a sign like that their yard and vote for hate. Maybe in 2016 I could have understood.

Maybe.

But we know better now, and I’m only speaking for myself.

To love your neighbor is to do what is best for everyone with the privilege you hold. Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry wrote during the 2016 election:

Go and vote.  Vote your conscience.  Your conscience informed by what it means to love your neighbor.  To participate in the process of seeking the common good.  To participate in the process of making this a better world.  However you vote, go and vote.  And do that as a follower of Jesus. 

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I would amend that to say, if you are a follower of Jesus;

If you are someone who seeks justice, cares about the poor, widow, and orphan;

If you strive to till the soil of this world to usher in the kin-dom of heaven;

Do not vote for him. Lives are on the line.

Women’s lives are on the line.

LGBTQIA+ lives are on the line.

People of Color lives are in the line.

Those who rely on social security lives are on the line.

Those who live on the margins lives are on the line.

I support Palestinians, and she took too long to talk about Gaza in any “meaningful” way. And I’m not sure I trust the outcome. But like uncle Bernie said, “he must be defeated.”

I can go on, and on but I’ll end it with this:

Christ have mercy,

Lord have mercy,

Christ have mercy.