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Cutie Cousins!
Love my niece and nephew! Allison and I were able to go down and visit on Saturday. They are so sweet and so much fun!!!! Unfortunately, Trent is just like Shelby was when she was a baby...very much a mama's baby! But that's okay...although I would love to snuggle on him, I am betting on chances that hopefully he will like me someday like Shelby does now!!! :)
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It's Rough Out There.....
This has been quite the week or more. So many things have been going on, both locally and around the globe. Things that are very disturbing to me, and things that I cannot understand why they make sense to people around me.
I learned that even though I am conceited enough to think that I am correct in my thinking of moral issues. I must be because I try really, really hard to always side on the view of honesty, fairness, and God's Word and will. I try to look at both sides of an issue and then fall to the side that I believe follows what I've been taught all my life. I do still try to be fair, however. My world can tend to be more gray than black and white a lot of the times. Even things that I agree or disagree with, it may only be 98% of the time...I can think of a 2% in which it could go the opposite. Abortion is an issue for one...I am pro-life, antiabortion. I don't think it has anything to do with a woman's right to choose...at least at that point. It IS a woman's right to choose to not have sex. But, there is that 2% of the time (I'll even go to 5%) when there is rape or incest involved....and in those cases I can entertain the use of an abortion if done in the early stages. I especially cannot condone late term abortion...ESPECIALLY in this day and age where babies are born early and can be saved outside of the mother's body, survive and thrive in life. How people can view an unborn child, a said-fetus, to not be a life if just beside me. I cannot understand it.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court struck down DOMA, stating that it was unconstitutional. I am so sick and tired of hearing that the 'rights' of LGBTs are being neglected or stomped on by being denied the "benefits' of marriage. You see, I am a firm believer in the fact that marriage actually began as a sacrament implemented by God for a man and a woman...a very sacred sacrament, not to be taken lightly. To me, this has absolutely about equal rights for gay people. Homosexuality is a totally different subject in my opinion. I don't necessarily see the appeal in same sex marriage, I don't agree with it, and yes, there is a lot of information in the Bible as well about that, that is a totally separate issue from marriage. So, why not just form another "category" (for lack of a better word) so that if gays must be in a "committed relationship"similar to marriage and want to have all the "rights" and "benefits" of married couples, okay then. It is simply not to be considered "MARRIAGE". I am soooooo sick of national media making everything SEXUALIZED. People are not just people anymore...they are gay couples or straight couples, or whatever.
I don't even want to go down the road about what can of worms this whole thing can open up. Let's face it, homosexuality was (and probably still is) illegal not that long ago; what happens down the road if people want to start taking more than one spouse such as the Mormons do, what if they want to marry a child or an animal? Sounds far-fetched? No that can't happen or won't happen? It wasn't that many years ago that no one would have thought we would be having THIS conversation of gay marriage either!
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I learned that even though I am conceited enough to think that I am correct in my thinking of moral issues. I must be because I try really, really hard to always side on the view of honesty, fairness, and God's Word and will. I try to look at both sides of an issue and then fall to the side that I believe follows what I've been taught all my life. I do still try to be fair, however. My world can tend to be more gray than black and white a lot of the times. Even things that I agree or disagree with, it may only be 98% of the time...I can think of a 2% in which it could go the opposite. Abortion is an issue for one...I am pro-life, antiabortion. I don't think it has anything to do with a woman's right to choose...at least at that point. It IS a woman's right to choose to not have sex. But, there is that 2% of the time (I'll even go to 5%) when there is rape or incest involved....and in those cases I can entertain the use of an abortion if done in the early stages. I especially cannot condone late term abortion...ESPECIALLY in this day and age where babies are born early and can be saved outside of the mother's body, survive and thrive in life. How people can view an unborn child, a said-fetus, to not be a life if just beside me. I cannot understand it.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court struck down DOMA, stating that it was unconstitutional. I am so sick and tired of hearing that the 'rights' of LGBTs are being neglected or stomped on by being denied the "benefits' of marriage. You see, I am a firm believer in the fact that marriage actually began as a sacrament implemented by God for a man and a woman...a very sacred sacrament, not to be taken lightly. To me, this has absolutely about equal rights for gay people. Homosexuality is a totally different subject in my opinion. I don't necessarily see the appeal in same sex marriage, I don't agree with it, and yes, there is a lot of information in the Bible as well about that, that is a totally separate issue from marriage. So, why not just form another "category" (for lack of a better word) so that if gays must be in a "committed relationship"similar to marriage and want to have all the "rights" and "benefits" of married couples, okay then. It is simply not to be considered "MARRIAGE". I am soooooo sick of national media making everything SEXUALIZED. People are not just people anymore...they are gay couples or straight couples, or whatever.
I don't even want to go down the road about what can of worms this whole thing can open up. Let's face it, homosexuality was (and probably still is) illegal not that long ago; what happens down the road if people want to start taking more than one spouse such as the Mormons do, what if they want to marry a child or an animal? Sounds far-fetched? No that can't happen or won't happen? It wasn't that many years ago that no one would have thought we would be having THIS conversation of gay marriage either!
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