Letter: Blasphemous acts

To the editor:

Thank you, Edith Guffey, for addressing the abysmal and frankly blasphemous actions and words of Gov. Brownback with the true word of Christ (“Don’t be silent,” Public Forum, Nov. 19). 

Not only is he “feeding fear and xenophobia” he is directly contradicting the Word of God. I find it curious that he would stand up for bigotry by passing “religious freedom” legislation but, when an opportunity to live out the edicts of Christ presents itself, he would stand against the explicit words of Christ. 

Perhaps Brownback and his ilk are incapable of seeing that if we are to “love our enemy as our neighbor” we should also love the innocent victims of our enemy as well. Perhaps he thinks the true hero of Christ’s birth was the innkeeper who wouldn’t find room for the weary and pregnant travelers? Perhaps he didn’t make it all the way to Genesis 37 where an enslaved immigrant saves the kingdom of Egypt by levying a tax?

Edith, you are correct: As Christians, we must not be silent. We must reclaim the “good news” and that never had a message of exclusion and callous disregard. Our savior started his life relegated to the margins and spent his life preaching from that same space in society. What manner of Christians are we when we turn our backs on those who occupy those same margins?