From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
I’m staying because my son and daughter see the world as beautiful, and they see people as good and the future as hopeful—and I’ll be damned if I have to move them thousands of miles away to give them that reality. They deserve the America they believe exists.
I’m staying to show the country that Christianity is not what they’ve been told it is by the Religious Right. It is not this Bible Belt bastardization, with a bloodthirsty, gun-toting, “Don’t tread on me” white, Republican Jesus looking to purify the country and drive out the gays and the blacks and the illegals and the Muslims.
I’m staying to stand up to the hallway bullies and the church door vandals and the drive-by catcallers and the social media terrorists, to let them know that they don’t have the run of the house just because they have a kindred spirit in the White House.