PHIL

Dennis Miller tickles me.  He has said "we need to have a talk about free speech".

Of course, the Phil Robertson/A&E "dust-up" IS a freedom of speech issue.  But speaking candidly, does anyone believe that's the heart of it?

We all sense that Phil has pulled out a silver bullet.

So regarding the larger issue of morality, it doesn't matter what I think.  Or what you think.  Or even what Phil thinks.  It matters what God thinks.

It's pretty ironic how people with little Bible knowledge tie themselves up in a knot trying to explain how Phil is unChristian...while quoting Scripture.  They are ripping their britches and don't even know it.

We will all answer to THE Authority who has already written His position paper on the subject.  We might instead be about figuring out what He says.

Listen, Friends.  We all tell our teens "the guardrails are there to protect you".  And so it is with us.  God is FOR US just as you are for your kids.  You don't offer them drugs or destructive behaviors because you love them.  We all either live self-determined lives, or submitted lives that believe the Way set out the best way.

There will be peacemakers with a twisting stomach who read this and they wish we didn't have things that divided us into camps.  Jesus tells us to choose.  And he says something interesting in the book of John.  "If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him.  For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.  The one who rejects me and does not accept my words HAS A JUDGE; the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day."

God wants our best and we should want that, too.