{"id":135,"date":"2015-10-13T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consistent-life.org\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-10-10T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T22:57:15","slug":"spice-things-up-with-the-consistent-life-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consistent-life.org\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/13\/spice-things-up-with-the-consistent-life-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spice things up with the Consistent Life Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Carol

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Carol Crossed<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

By Carol Crossed, Consistent Life Board Member<\/em><\/p>\n

The consistent life ethic is like salt.<\/strong> You don\u2019t need a whole lot to be effective. But it\u2019s\u00a0essential<\/strong> to have it present\u2026spread out here and there to spice up politics, to add a little flavor to\u00a0dull single-issue groups.<\/p>\n

But it stings, like when you wash out your mouth to cure a canker sore. It smarts on the\u00a0wound. It makes you sit up straight and take notice that something\u2019s different here.\u00a0And then it heal<\/strong>s if you leave it there long enough. The \u201cliberals\u201d need it to cure\u00a0contradictions and the \u201cconservatives\u201d need it for incongruities. And we all need it to cleanse\u00a0and purify us from self-righteousness. Yes, consistency is good for what ails the Left and the\u00a0Right.<\/p>\n

Salt forms new compositions and breaks up ice.<\/strong> Like the consistent life ethic it warms cold\u00a0and hardened opinions and makes slush\u2026soft and malleable. The fragile unborn child becomes\u00a0the person on death row. We abandon our stale ideologies that leave somebody out. The\u00a0homeless on the war torn streets of Baghdad become the homeless unwanted child in the womb.\u00a0Home. That\u2019s where the consistent life ethic brings us. No hidden agendas. It allows us to\u00a0be whole, to be ourselves again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally published in Harmony, December 1991<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Carol Crossed, Consistent Life Board Member The consistent life ethic is like salt. You don\u2019t need a whole lot to be effective. But it\u2019s\u00a0essential to have it present\u2026spread out here and there to spice up politics, to add a little flavor to\u00a0dull single-issue groups. But it stings, like when you wash out your mouth… <\/p>\n