Love wins has become a popular slogan. However, love doesn’t always win. Sometimes love loses.

• Love loses when bullying becomes a political strategy.
• Love loses when a child in the womb is viewed as an object to be killed and disposed of.
• Love loses when entertainment promotes violence, vulgarity, and disrespect.
• Love loses when a wall is seen as a cure-all.
• Love loses when when people disrespect others and call them names on social media.
• Love loses when honest disagreement is called hatred.
• Love loses when life becomes about personal pleasure and self-gratification.
• Love loses when an assault rife is seen as an important weapon in the arsenal of self-defense.
• Love loses when people are singled out for mistreatment because of their race, their religion, their nationality, or their opinions.
• Love loses when people are rude to one another.
• Love loses when people respond to perceived rudeness with various forms of aggression such as road rage.
• Love loses when we take offense.
• Love loses when we lie.
• Love loses when we brag and act in pride.
• Love loses when we succumb to compassion fatigue.
• Love loses when we expect government to take care of us.
• Love loses when we do what we feel rather than what’s morally right.
• Love loses when laws command people to violate their conscience under threat of punishment.
• Love loses when sex is seen as a casual activity.
• Love loses when we let mass murders and other violence make us numb.
• Love loses when we are unkind to those who disagree with us.
• Love loses when political correctness stops open and honest communication.
• Love loses when  when fear prevails.
• Love loses when the horror of war is celebrated and glorified.
• Love loses when we steal or cheat.
• Love loses when we ignore the poor.

When else does love lose?