Gays, Republicans, illegal immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Baptists, the mentally ill, the homeless…anyone you mistrust or dismiss or find foreign, strange or threatening, you are them and they are you, in a very real, absolute, spiritual sense. Whatever distinctions you've invented to comfortably distance yourself from them (dismiss them without a hearing, legislate against them, justify killing them, etc.) are false distinctions.

God rejects such distinctions, as God rejects all falsehood. Each is your sister or brother, and you are called to embrace, honor, listen to and learn from them. They are, after all, flesh of your flesh and bone of your bone.

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