This is what I am talking about

The Revealer: Threat Logic: "Hired gunmen shot an American nun, 74-year-old Dorothy Stang of Ohio, in the face three times on Saturday. Stang, a member of the Catholic Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, had been helping Brazilian peasants fight (legally) the expropriation of their land by ranching and logging interests. So far, the conservative Catholic blogosphere seems disinterested. Maybe the dissonance -- 'free markets' vs. nun-shooting -- is just too great. Does not compute. Must continue fight against foe more dangerous than gun-toting nun killers: gay marriage. "

I blogged recently about sharing the concern for "life" with my conservative evangelical friends. But as I noted, that concern cannot stop simply with a fetus and ignore other lives.

One of the issues where I am the most frustrated with conservative evangelicals is their prioritizing of "moral values." Again, this is something we share, if in name only. Moral values are a good thing, yet I am not convinced they are only concerns of sexuality.

This story is a great example. American Christians can muster phone banks, letter writing campaigns, and bussing people to Alabama to protest that moron Roy Moore's idol worship, but cannot come up with any outrage for global poverty, 50 million uninsured Americans or this Catholic nun's murder.

We participate in all of it. We enjoy reduced living costs because of the people who killed Dorothy Stang. We benefit from child labor overseas. But our moral values are more concerned about the use of the "f-word" and sex on tv. When you are more concerned about a ten commandments statue than the lives of people, what do you stand for?

Need I remind you that this nun's murder is just the most recent in a long line of these kinds of crimes? Yet, even the comments at the Revealer include someone who dismisses the Sister for being a socialist. Think about that. A segment of our society that likes to talk about life has decided that a nun's life is not important because she advocated some kind of land reform.

Shame.