\u2018Tis the season where politics tends to contaminate all sorts of things. I get messages on an email list-serve that I belong to that\u2019s supposed to deal with other topics, but on occasion people insert their political messages. I realized that for the most part we tend to \u201crespect\u201d others\u2019 opinions, but what does that mean? For some, that means avoiding politics, religion, other controversial topics other than the subject-matter of that listserve. For others, listserves are more like friendships, and what\u2019s witnessing to belief—religious, political, social, etc.—is \u201cbetween friends,\u201d open-ended. So folks sometimes edge \u201cover the line\u201d and make appeals about their own preferences.<\/p>\n
I realized that what seems noble and good transcends other categories, or seems to, \u201cseems\u201d being the operative word. If it seems so, then for some it must BE so. Others don\u2019t get hooked this way. Nor would I presume to make a distinction that hides my opinion (that we shouldn\u2019t cross this line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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