I wrote about this indirectly yesterday, even using screenshots from the Super Bowl ad as my display image.

My story was about how illness tried to prevent me loving my neighbor, but I used the subtitle, "Thinking about washing feet in God's country."

I was thinking about the message of the ads, I was thinking about metaphorically washing my elderly neighbor's feet while supporting her through a traumatizing surgery.

I was thinking about how that sort of neighborly love feels increasingly rare here in the Bible belt, as I wondered if anyone would ever wash my queer feet, as it were.

I referenced Jesus, but I also quoted the Jewish sage Hillel the Elder, famed for promoting a sort of loving-kindness ethos contemporary to Jesus's teachings.

I don't like the people who sponsored the Super Bowl ad, because practically and politically they work hard to hurt people like me and the people I love.

But I don't despise their message. I wish they would listen to it, and I wish the rest of us would too.