A Southern Baptist preacher addressing South Carolina’s Congress about the Gay Marriage Amandment. In a nutshell:

“IT’S JUST PLAIN NOT RIGHT TO TREAT FOLKS LIKE THEY DON’T COUNT—LIKE THEY’RE NOT REAL PEOPLE.”

“You see, the religious experts of his time called him a drunk and a glutton because he went to parties with them, and they despised him because he hung out with the folks who were on the margins of respectable society—the disenfranchised ones—the ones they called the dregs of society. And they killed him for it. BUT THAT WAS HIS SPIRIT. And it was a spirit that ultimately would not, could not go wrong. Last Sunday—Easter—amidst all our “Hallelujahs, He is risen” we reminded ourselves that it is that kind of spirit that will always, always prevail. Easter tells us that God will not allow the spirit of Christ to be defeated. We may try to kill it with our hateful attitudes, but at the end of the day, it will be our hateful attitudes toward “the least of these” that will go down to defeat.”

Yes. Yes. YES.

(thanks to latentblue)