The Case for the Bleeding Heart

Sometimes people remark to me that I'm a bleeding-heart. They say it disparagingly, as though it's a cute quirk of mine like biting my lips or tapping my foot too much.

Well, we should all be bleeding hearts. No matter where on the spectrum your philosophical beliefs lie, you should be a bleeding heart liberal, or a bleeding heart conservative, or a bleeding heart moderate. Our hearts should hurt when we look at the poor and disenfranchised in this country. We can disagree on how best to help them, but we can not disagree on whether to help them and then claim to be a Christian nation.