Hateful Rhetoric

One of the news items that caught my eye today was an article on the Duggar family... that is, the family with 17 children in Arkansas. And so I looked around more, and one of the articles I came across shocked me in its hateful, offensive rhetoric towards the family. The author made personal attacks on the family in a narrow-minded, bigoted manner. It seemed like he had nothing better to do than make crude remarks about Mrs. Duggar's sexual organs, or to disparage Christians as the narrow-minded bigots he portrays himself as. If you don't believe me, check it out yourself: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/g/a/2005/10/19/notes101905.DTL
However, even more disturbing were the comments following the article. Although many people supported the Duggar family, many others hatefully attacked the members of this family along with the author--oftentimes in personal, bitter attacks on hairstyles, or vaginal dimensions... Come on, people, get a life!! One of the things that surprised me the most was how so many liberals were for laws regulating how many children a woman should be allowed to bear. What in the world, people! You can't stand for pro-choice, and try to limit the size of a family. This is the rhetoric that is slowly eroding away the freedoms our nation once stood for. The Duggars are simply exercising their freedom of choice, and considering they are not any burden on the government, get off their case.
Right alongside these leftists were the right extremists who blindly supported the Duggars and their correctness before God. Blindly judging anyone who doesn't agree with your beliefs or faith is shoving God down their throats. I would choke on something shoved down my throat too. Read 1 Corinthians 13 again... "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal..." We can stand there and judge other people, but we only become hypocrites, and we do not honor God. We can't afford to sit on our high horses... get down, and learn to love people with the love of God. Only then can you make a difference.
As for the Duggar family... I would never want 17 kids... but I am appalled at the personal attacks made against them. To have my vagina as the object of crude jokes would be humiliating, and to have my children's sexuality debated by strangers would be offensive. I hope none of the Duggar children ever happens upon this article and reads debates and attacks concerning their parents' sexual activity, etc... This world is messed up. We are so filled with hate... and Christians are the worst offenders. Let's try to love our neighbors as ourselves, and not try to shove our beliefs down others' throats.