A friend reposted this on his Facebook page. I think it resonates well with the truth worth defending.
I (tongue in cheek) asked him if any Republicans knew this. He said, I don't know, I'm not a Republican. I replied, sorry, I meant to say Republican legislators (local, state, national) - but I very much doubt it. (He didn't reply)

Posted by Chad Bird - author of
Limping with God

The Nun and the Stripper

The most astonishing, countercultural truth in the kingdom of Jesus is that love and acceptance have zero basis in worth or accomplishment. A billionaire in New York City is no more worthy of love and acceptance than the schizophrenic homeless man sleeping in an alley.

Before any of us build a business or declare bankruptcy, before we earn a Ph.D. or drop out of high school, before we establish a soup kitchen or appear in a porn video, we are equally loved by the God who shows no favoritism.

Our personal success does not attract his love, nor does our failure expand or contract it.

The God who is love loves us indiscriminately, passionately, furiously.

That love was on cosmic display when, atop a Roman tree of crucifixion, Jesus became the millionaire and the addict, the nun and the stripper, the newborn baby and the wrinkled octogenarian.

All humanity—with its sores and wounds and twisted souls and barren lives and evil-infested pasts—he became that all humanity might become, in him, resplendent in the eyes of the Father.