Okay, so i'm going to go ahead and apologize now for the rant that is soon to follow. its probably not going to make sense and have angry teen-words in it (for i am angry teen, hear me roar). Plus i went to church. Organized religion annoys me; organized religion with a bone to pick makes me plain ol' pissy.
Gomenasai!!
i like my church; its in a trailer across from my old elementary school, the concragation is relatively small and close-nit, and i feel very welcome in the warm family enviornment it presents. We have not been going every week like we did around Easter, so the whole family got up early to go do the religious bonding thing at Lighthouse Baptist.
Only, my family can't seem to do anything without arguing about it first.
Being fourth of July weeked the service was patriotic in theme, which made me happy, i may be obsessed with anything Asian-oriented but when it comes down to it i'm a patriotic emohippiegangsta from the south who listens to all things music (word, yo). i was happy, until we got into political views, then Sarah started getting mad. it's at times like these that i realize what stubborn person i am. i'm not a my way or the high way kind of person, and i do listen to what other people say, but thats what i don't like about religion and politics; its black and white, there is no in-between, its all so absolute.
Well, abortion, same marriage, and God in government came back into play, the same three topics i'm rather touchy about.
if we are all human beings, we should all be treated as such, meaning we all get to make concious desicions about how we want to live our lives. Where as i don't support abortion, its taking away a living things chance to live, making it murder no matter how you look at it, but i do believe in a woman's right to choose whats best for her body. A woman should have that freedom of choice, we live in America that supports the ideal. if i woman gets pregnant and wants to have an abortion, why the hell should the state, or anyone else, stop her? is the state going to personally select a good home for the child when it gets put up for adoption? No.
it will be on her concious for the rest of her life, nobody elses, and certainly not a politicians.
No matter what anyone from a religious stand point says on the subject marriage is not a sacred binding of two people, at least not anymore. Margret Cho explained it best; if someone like Brittany Spears can go marry a guy she new in High School on a whime in Las Vegas, then just as quickly get a divorce, why can't two people of the same sex get married to? At least, unlike the sex-drive pop princess, the gays actually love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together just like any normal couple, maybe even raise children together. Todays view on marriage in America is an agreement by two people to share money and raise the next generation to think such.
A family should be defined by love, not a buisness agreement.
God is great and all but this is America; land of the free, home of the brave, founded in the pursuit of happiness, suppoused country of religious tolerance. Though our founding fathers, who were undoubtedly fanatic Christans, wrote a documant that forever changed the world, somehow their plan was flawed. They were still only human, we all are, whereas God is eternal, all powerful, loving and smiteful. The bible was written by man in what he believed to be God's will on earth, making some of what it says a little less believable. Why would God forsake any of the children that was surely created for a purpose? How do we know for sure God hates and does want gays to get married; God loves all of his children, he created us all, one by one, with a specific path to fallow through life. How do we know that the ones writing the bible were infact writing God's word, or their own idea that same sex love was evil?
i think God's a profesional chemist, but has no place in politics. (end rant).
After a long day of cleaning, and a lot of other not so fun stuff, i'm ready to call it a day. And its only 5:20.
Wow, i'm old.
My wave of relatives hit me full force tomorrow. 10 of us will be sqeezed into our family-of-4 size house, and thats no including Sam and anyone else that i decided to have over to meet the family; but Sam's practically family, so she doesn't count.
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♥ [Sarah] ♥