God Bless Ina Hughes

I was having a bad day until my wife handed me today’s column by News Sentinel columnist Ina Hughes. I’ve never been a fan of the News-Sentinel, but what I read surprised me. The opening lines cheered up and by the end I was cheering out loud.

If a columnist in our local conservative newspaper can write with such spunk and honest-to-goodness Christian conviction there is hope for us all. She starts out quoting scripture and ends plugging—(did you ever??)—a gay rights march here in Knoxville.

On Saturday, 2–5 p.m., the Knoxville community is invited and encouraged to join in a parade down Gay Street in an effort to raise our level of tolerance for our gay and lesbian population and to express support for the social justice and civil rights they deserve as Americans, as our brothers and sisters in the human family, and, for people of faith, as children of God.

What does the Lord require of us? The answer is clear to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear: to be fair, to be kind and to be humble.

As a Christian, as an American, and as a human being, I encourage everyone to out-shout and out-maneuver the Falwells and Robertsons of the world and show their support. It’s the right thing to do.

Yes, my fellow Bluenecks, Ms. Hughes has loaded her pen with rock salt and she’s letting the modern-day Pharisees have it with both barrels. Email her your thanks, and a big God Bless you. — T