It Is Not Hard to Be on the Right Side of History

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“It is only through trying to reach sameness that we find our differences, and through our differences we find that we are the same.”
Valarie Coulter

There is a persistent myth running through our culture that being on the right side of history is complicated. That it requires endless debate, moral gymnastics, or waiting for perfect certainty before acting. It does not.
The right side of history is simple, even when it is not easy.

It celebrates difference instead of fearing it. It understands that diversity is not disorder, but intelligence expressed in many forms. Every human, animal, tree, and stone carries a slightly different signature. If sameness were the goal, creation would have stopped after the first successful draft.
God did not create copies.

God created difference to experience life through many lenses.

This is where another damaging myth takes root. The idea that we must be the same in order to be loved. That holiness requires conformity. That acceptance is conditional on behaving, believing, looking, or thinking the “right” way. This belief did not arise from divine truth. It arose from systems that benefit from control.