Yesterday, I noted the image of a police officer washing the feet of an inner-city resident. If the ad's message is about fighting hate, a more appropriate example, in my view, would have been an inner-city resident washing the police officer's feet, instead of the hate that is so often directed at those on the Thin Blue Line.
Another obvious example involves the image of pro-life activists outside an abortion clinic while one washes the feet of a woman who is either going into or just came out of the abortion clinic.
Presumably, the message is: don't hate women who have abortions. Christians don't hate women who are experiencing crisis pregnancies. That's why we try to prevent them from being exploited by the abortion industry and why we support pregnancy resource centers.
But there is a lot of hatred and violence around the life issue, and it is coming from the pro-abortion side, especially since Roe v. Wade was overturned. There have been hundreds of attacks on pro-life centers and churches as a result of the left's hate.
So, if you want to address hate surrounding the life issue, a more accurate ad would have featured a pro-abortion woman washing the feet of a pro-life woman. Or, better yet, washing the feet of a baby, since they are the ones who die in every abortion.
I am not sure who the ad was aimed at. Maybe the sponsors thought they were showing people who aren't Christians that Jesus is about love and He loves them.
I think it's just as likely that the ad was aimed at telling Christians they are wrong to oppose the LGBTQ movement, the pro-abortion movement and the misnamed social justice movement.
Christ would not be upset that Christians are trying to prevent abortions or trying to protect their children from graphic sexual material in school and from unproven, irreversible medical experiments. He wants us to protect the children He gave us, all of whom are made in His image.
Was the ad meant to tell people with sexually immoral lifestyles, those who are aborting their babies, or those who are illegally entering our country that Jesus loves them?
Every Christian I know believes that Christ loves those individuals, as He loves us all. But He also tells us all to "Go and sin no more." God does "hate" sin.
Regardless, I can think of much better ways to spend $7 million or more.
I have been asked, "Maybe the ad wasn't perfect, Gary, but what would you have done?"
Something like this. #HeSavesUs.
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