Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal about the incredible forgiveness of the members of Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. During the bail hearing for the (alleged) killer, Nadine Collier, whose 70-year old mother was killed, said, “I forgive you. You took something very precious away from me…. You hurt me. You hurt a lot of people. But if God forgives you, I forgive you.” Alana Simmons, whose grandfather, Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons Sr. was killed, said, “We are here to combat hate-filled actions with love-filled actions. And that is what we want to get out to the world.”
Ms. Noonan called it a miracle, which it was. I certainly wonder if I would have been able to be so forgiving. But the key, which many in the media may have missed, is that it was not only a miracle of those people and that church. It was the miracle of the Christian faith, which the members of Emanuel A.M.E. Church were living out in a way we should all hope we would do if put to a similar test.
Which brings me to the second part of the heading of this post. Last Friday, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. Proponents of same-sex marriage have won.1 What will they do next?
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