[TheRealThing]

All we can do is hope and pray that the leaders we elect will be better than the last. Bar is really low for the Beshear.

FWIW don't believe everything you read on Facebook (the root of most of this evil in our nation today.)

KY already has gambling: Horse racing and the lottery. The cat is already out of the bag and has been for years. Personally, I would like to see a compromise of legalized gambling and sales tax to solve our tax revenue woes.

Everyone has a truth that's the problem that woke culture and conservative culture has right now. There is no inbetween. Ironic ain't it...

I hear ya. The truth I meant was the truth according to God's Word, and It's clear. God's truth is much more important that any argument men may have, because it addresses and solves every last one of them. Most conservatives recognize one cannot dictate morality or lifestyle. And we cannot claim any high ground of and on our own. It's a question of choice and the understanding that devoid of the leadership of the Lord's Holy Spirit in one's life, there go I. Further, though we are a Christian nation we are not a theocracy and must respect one's right to make unfortunate choices. (That is the one's which don't break the law.) And cannot therefore legislate men into obeyance. The intolerance isn't coming from Christians, I can tell you that. And I frankly have not seen much of it from Republicans.

There is great misfortune headed our way in allowing only one side to define the terms of the situation and I blame some politicians for using implications of bias to stir up their base rather than relying on factual issues. But men are inherently endowed with the understanding of right and wrong as judged by their own consciences. So though they might not act like they accept moral tenets, inwardly they're aware of the truth. We have to keep getting it out there. But just as we cannot legislate obeyance, neither should we make law which is patently designed to overturn God's law. In dong that we have asked for trouble, and in so doing we have really found trouble.

Unfortunately conservatives have allowed their efforts to be mischaracterized as born of contempt or feelings of superiority. A certain percentage of the right base their perspectives on Scripture, the historical record and heritage, while most of the remainder base their perceptions almost exclusively on history and heritage. With Scripture coming in a distant third. But when government tries to define morality in direct contravention to Scripture, whether we like it or not, we get the divide you have described. They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and in all candor, I believe the left are convinced they are right. Their argument is with God in many cases, not Republicans/conservatives. He is the Author and Definer of all things moral.

But like you suggest, if we are to go on, the left and right had better figure out now to forgive each other. Otherwise the flames of hatred on display will only get hotter. Men ought to acquiesce to the will of the Creator, and use His wisdom as their guide in these matters. His is the standard which provides peaceful coexistence. Otherwise the endless fight will continue to divide us, and it WILL conquer us.