Good is evil, and evil is good.

"You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart."

So said the perennial "nice guy," Jesus. And he wasn't talking to just the pharisees...

He was talking to you.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in his divinity, as the social commentary remains more than valid. In fact, if you can't handle a Jesus quote, I'll give you one a bit more "secular" in source.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

That's from Abraham Lincoln, by the way.

Or how about the declaration of independence? These words were penned by men of a variety of political and religious creeds:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Tell me, what are the "laws of nature?" Have we considered them while trying to provide tax breaks for sodomy? Tell me, what does the "right to life" -- enshrined in our founding documents and in natural law -- mean to a country which has denied it to over 50 million human beings?

This has nothing to do with choice of creed. It has everything to do with common sense.

"Good is evil, and evil is good," said both Shakespeare and Isaiah in their scathing poetic criticisms of then-contemporary societies. Sadly, they are correct once again.

There of those who have no problem seeking goodness while naively denying the existence of evil. There are those of you who would make moral value judgments with no other reference point other than individual opinion. There are those -- like the Prop-8 passage protesters, for example -- who would enshrine individual opinion, and then whine pathetically when opinion does not lean their own way.

Shame on you.