I am intrigued by the difference between equality and equity. I believe that we ARE equal as humans and all human rights spring from this. I see equity as when human rights are manifest equally across humanity. We ARE equal. We MAY work to bring about equity. My intrigue comes in with the radical rabbit hole of behaving “as if” people are equal — which is a claimed value by many. When I was part of a gay equality congregation (before gay marriage was legalized) there was a lot of strategizing over HOW to get to the church and society to treat gays equally. Of course, the overwhelming majority of such strategizing was how to get OTHER churches and our government to treat gays equally. For example, few professional Christians, aka pastors, in the gay equality movement actually openly agreed to and performed holy unions of LGBTQ folks — of course, because existing inequities would extract a price for such values. Or, how about laying down unjust privilege by refusing to offer heterosexual marriage until LGBTQ marriage equality? I now strongly suspect that the healthier and more powerful relationship to one another comes from individuals and small bands of people boldly demonstrating precisely what they value TODAY, not in some possible future, made possible by shrewdly bargaining for human rights, human equality, in the constellation of inequities I am haunted by the question: how can I treat others equally NOW? I find human equality a dangerously transformative challenge. What if I treat strangers as family? I suspect that this is the very power of God. I fail miserably AND joyously go down that radial rabbit hole…
…or, are we all equal, and some are just, more equal than others?
Wanting Equity
What is
We ARE equal
What is knot
Is equity
What most people
Wanting
Ahead scratcher
As lean
Into
What is
