Wednesday, February 25, 2004
current events
i don't really keep up with current events. i barely look at the newspaper anymore, when i used to read the front section cover to cover. that was back when i had time. now, the only glimpses i get of the news is what i catch while my dad is watching cnn. thank goodness he watches it a lot.
have you been keeping up with this whole gay marriage thing in san francisco and new mexico? it's been all over the place lately and i found out through wil wheaton's blog of all places, that george w. bush has "called for an amendment to the Constitution that would effectively codify homosexuals as second-class citizens". wtf? you know what immediately came to mind? x-men, when they were trying to push a measure to register all of the mutants. wil's blog recalled racial segregation and the civil rights movement. and i'd have to agree that it sounds really against what this country is for.
now, i don't really know where i stand on this issue, cuz i find homosexuals completely loving and normal people. i have relatives who are homosexual and we love them and treat them just the same. however, my religion finds homosexual activity (not the people, but the act of having sexual relations with a member of the same sex) to be immoral. i haven't decided on the morality of this issue, but for the government to "track" its citizens and declare any of them as second-class citizens really doesn't sound right. isn't it backtracking from all our civil rights progress? i dunno about that...
have you been keeping up with this whole gay marriage thing in san francisco and new mexico? it's been all over the place lately and i found out through wil wheaton's blog of all places, that george w. bush has "called for an amendment to the Constitution that would effectively codify homosexuals as second-class citizens". wtf? you know what immediately came to mind? x-men, when they were trying to push a measure to register all of the mutants. wil's blog recalled racial segregation and the civil rights movement. and i'd have to agree that it sounds really against what this country is for.
now, i don't really know where i stand on this issue, cuz i find homosexuals completely loving and normal people. i have relatives who are homosexual and we love them and treat them just the same. however, my religion finds homosexual activity (not the people, but the act of having sexual relations with a member of the same sex) to be immoral. i haven't decided on the morality of this issue, but for the government to "track" its citizens and declare any of them as second-class citizens really doesn't sound right. isn't it backtracking from all our civil rights progress? i dunno about that...
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quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
