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All Forms Of Violence Are Equally Wrong

Those Refusing To Condemn All Violence Are Its Enablers

June 14, 2016

Miami, FL - by Florida Democratic League - This Sunday’s killings in Florida have brought home to all Americans the horror and perversity of violence. Whether it’s a prayerful gathering of pious Christians, or a boisterous party at the self-billed "hottest gay [sic] bar" in Orlando, no one, absolutely no one, has the right to maim or murder anyone. Regardless of whom the victims are, all forms of violence must be condemned as being equally wrong; equally abhorrent.

Let’s not kid ourselves into thinking that some forms of violence are wrong while others are not. Yes, physical violence is wrong. But it’s not the only kind of violence being committed against Americans today.

There’s also spiritual, psychological and moral violence; the kind of violence of which America’s children, women, and families are victims in the pernicious campaign of bigotry, hate, and discrimination currently being waged against Christians in our country and throughout the world.

We must not be hypocrites. We must practice a consistent ethics of respect for human life be it physical, spiritual, or intellectual, as all life is equally precious and sacred. Selective indignation and hypocrisy turns us into accomplices and enablers of the violent.

Yes, we are all called to abhor and condemn acts of terror and hate such as the one committed in Orlando. But ethical consistency demands that we also abhor and condemn the not so subtle violence of those using the ugly slur of “homophobe,” “homophobia,” or “homophobic” to degrade, demean, and incite violence against everyone who dares to disagrees with an extremist ideology. Who is condemning this violence?

We must also abhor and condemn the violence committed by extremists who promote the slaughter of abortion where 5,000 innocent and defenseless children are robbed of their life right in its mother’s womb. Who mourns their precious lives?

We must also abhor and condemn the violence committed by extremists who promote aberrant curriculum and sexual programs that inflict spiritual and psychological violence against school children by robbing them of their innocence and virtue. Who is condemning this violence?

We must also abhor and condemn the violence committed by those pushing laws allowing individuals to enter bathrooms, dressing rooms, showers and other facilities designated and/or set aside for members of the opposite sex, in reckless violation of our constitutional rights to privacy and personal safety. Who is condemning this violence?

Let us be very clear: acceptance of any type of violence inevitably leads to the acceptance of all types of violence. Selective indignation and the refusal to condemn violence in all its insidious forms, are what enable, incite and justify the violence that shocked us this Sunday. Yes, what happened in Orlando is wrong, dead wrong. But it’s equally wrong and hypocritical to select which victims we are going to cry for.

 

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