I really hope they post the video to this commentary but it is still worth a read.

How hateful do you have to be to slander the Girl Scouts? I mean, I have my problems with the leadership of the Boy Scouts being bigots but haven’t heard about the Girl Scouts denying rights to people.

And that is all this is, conservatives using a Bible to justify pure hatred of others who want to be inclusive. In this case it is a transgendered seven year old kid. Or some ties to Planned Parenthood. Or just the fact they hate women of all ages.

It does not matter. Using your church because you’re too chicken to say you hate and fear anyone or anything different than you just makes you a coward.

And cowards lose the fight. Always.

Personally, I find it both reprehensible and embarrassing that it is apparently legal to get out of your car, stalk a kid because you don’t like his skin color, and then shoot him dead.

You can open up all the grand juries and the FBI can come riding into town, but that is a legal act in the state of Florida, 2012 years after the Age of Christ.

Here is a very moving reflection on the state of black men – and the racism they face – that I heard earlier today.

And here is an observation from a white person trying to understand, and knowing they will never face the things so many people in this nation, and this world, know instinctively. People hate you solely for how you look.