odd man out.

I’ve been going back and forth over the last few days about whether to post this video, but after seeing how it affected a friend of mine last night, I think it’s pretty valuable:

“It’s Time.”

I think talking about issues is much easier than talking about people.  When we talk about issues, we can stay in the theoretical, and it’s much easier to think of things in absolute terms.  When we talk about people, suddenly we’re talking about your roommate or your sister or your coworker, and the conversation gets much more complicated.

This happens all the time in the homosexuality debates.  I would certainly never say that the theoretical realm is bad, and I think it has a lot to say to our behaviors and beliefs.  But I’ve noticed that theoretical conversations tend to be much more insensitive and abrasive than conversations about and involving people, and I think one of the reasons many Christian conversations about homosexuality become insensitive and abrasive is that many Christians simply don’t know any LGBT people.

I think one of the reasons this video is so moving (and, in my opinion, so compelling) is because it is not about issues.  It’s about people—two people, in fact.