My Biggest Blogging Mistake

         I made a colossal and unmitigated mistake not standing up for the police in the Ferguson and NYC Police Controversies 

"Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger."

                                     James 1:19

    I made a mistake. No, "mistake" is too insignificant word for what I have done recently. I failed exceedingly in a recent blog post I wrote about the Ferguson and New York City Police controversies. In fact, major mistakes were made on my part and I am deeply mournful for my failings in this respect.

You see, for my entire life I have been a conservative. I am a 'conservative's conservative" and have always tried to stand up for law and order and the rule of law in American society. However, in the case of the controversies in NYC and Ferguson, I got caught up with the excitement and rushed to judgment too quickly on these issues. 

In fact, I allowed peer pressure and the fact that I am trying to make friends and influence people in a very secular and liberal college town to cloud my better judgment. The Bible says, "A fools voice is known through a multitude of words," (Ecclesiastes 5:13), and I have said far too much without checking the facts in order to solicit readership for this blog.

I know want to go down on record that while I do believe that there is justification to be angry about the Eric Garner and Michael Brown shootings, I now know that I spoke far too quickly and rushed to a verdict without doing my my due diligence and own private investigation before saying that these two young men "were murdered" by the police. I simply do not know if this is the case. I need to be far more careful with what I write here on this blog.

Since the beginning of October, over 25,000 people have read my blog and profile page on Google, and I have an obligation before God to speak and write about truthful things. I was far from being accurate in what I wrote and I am sorry.  I am crushed beyond belief for my failings in this respect and my heart breaks and mourns the loss of these two police officers who were killed on the job in NYC.