The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs prompts a long overdue question to America’s clergy, especially as to Christianity, its dominant faith. In our society, nightclubs provide the LGBT community with otherwise nonexistent public venues to socialize and enjoy human interaction. They also are magnets for shooters undergoing personal crises who choose gays as hate objects. All such shootings are capital hate crimes, immoral on their face, violating the First Commandment: “Thou shall not kill.”
In every case, the unasked question becomes this: As self-appointed guardians of morality and as spokespersons for your faith, why has organized religion not spoken out in the name of common human brotherhood, advocating for the sanctity of all life, be it a school shooting or a gay club shooting?
