For anyone wanting to read the full text of Hillary Clinton’s speech at Rick Warren’s HIV/AIDS conference, the campaign has it up here.
In the Gospel, we learn that one-third of Christ’s ministry was healing the sick. And if you read those moments, when Jesus is presented with someone who is ill, it becomes abundantly clear that Christ had a choice. He could have been too busy. He could have thought you know this is not the message of the day. I don’t need to do this; I’ve already done it in Capernaum so I don’t need to do it again. But he made the choice. He never asked why someone was sick. He just healed and ministered those in need.
That is what Saddleback has chosen too. Other churches, nonprofits, and governments have also chosen to heal, to help, to redeem. For many of us the Golden Rule calls on us to act.