All hell (no pun intended) is breaking loose over a “religious freedom” bill, which has been introduced in the Louisiana Legislature by Bossier Republican state Rep. Mike Johnson.

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A friend quit playing golf when he realized you can judge a man’s religion by what he says when he misses a short putt..

The Bible teaches us that a “sin of omission” is a failure to do something one can, and ought to do. James 4:17 reads, “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” Proverbs 3:27 says, “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Sometimes we get so caught up in using labels that we miss the forest for the trees. Of course, labels help us organize our world, which is increasingly loud, confusing and misleading.

Yet recent news reports in our nation seem to tell a different story today, and it’s one that seems increasingly obsessed with the colors of our skin, rather than the content of our characters; of what divides us, rather than what strengthens us.