I've Been Thinking

From Lisa Sharon Harper’s article at Sojourners, Washing Clean: Germany, Ireland, and Our America:

Then I was in Dublin speaking on the power of confession and repentance to heal their land.

As our cab rolled through winding streets on my way to Dublin airport on Sunday, our driver explained the full history of religious conflict in Ireland.

Catholics, he explained, have been the ones pushed to the bottom rung of the human hierarchy in Ireland. Catholics were the ones relegated to the worst jobs. They were the ones relegated to the worst schools. They were the ones relegated to the cramped quarters of ghetto life. And that is why this overwhelmingly Catholic nation voted “Yes” for marriage equality.

“It’s the word ‘inequality,’ our driver explained, “The Irish understand it. And we can’t stand it.” (emphasis added)

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