I actually know very nice people who have this sign posted in their yards and fail to understand why their very nice neighbors think it insulting. Let me explain. As Jesus himself said–and who would disagree?–“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them.” The people in this house may not even be practicing righteousness. They are merely claiming to practice it and insisting that their claims be seen. Then too, they imply that their sign-less neighbors are less righteous. Worse, the righteousness devolves down to a series of cliches, most of which the sign poster him or her or zherself did not believe, say, 20 years ago. Finally, alas, there is no cliche to cover the 2,000 unborn American babies–half of them female, a third of them black–killed legally each day whose lives do not apparently matter to the sign posters a whit. Sorry, neighbor, but there is nothing kind about the sign at all.
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