Friday, February 22, 2008

Miracles and Madness


Done wallerin'. Yep. I think I am. For now, at least. I could keep on with it, believe me. But I'm CHOOSING not to. Some days you can do this. Some days, as Lopo pointed out, you just can't.

It rained here and when I mean rain, I mean it poured and continued to pour for over sixteen hours. I think this is the most rain we've had in the least amount of time since the last hurricane. My "rain gauge" is my Rubbermaid wheelbarrow and I can't remember the last time the entire bottom was covered in water after a rain. This morning, the whole damn thing was filled up and had overflowed!

Folks, this is huge. There's water in the creek and water in the ponds and water in the ground and I'm can almost hear the oak trees sucking it up through the roots.

And we're supposed to get even more rain tonight.

Bring it on!

Now I'd like to discuss, just the teensiest bit, some of the ways religion has been intersecting with our lives here in America and specifically Tallahassee. Yes, I have been reading that "atheist" book, god Is Not Great but I'm not talking about proof of God or proof of not-god or anything like that. I just want to mention that there was a display at FSU a few days ago which compared abortion to genocide with pictures of fetuses as well as pictures from real, honest-to-God genocide and although I could talk about this for days, Kati Shardl did a real good job of it in yesterday's Democrat and that column can be read here.

I remember when abortion in this country was illegal and I remember the battle that it took to give women the right to make their own decisions about their own bodies and every time something like this happens or another pro-life, Christian Values judge gets appointed to the Supreme Court, my blood runs cold because this slippery slope is steep and getting slipperier.

When these anti-abortion people start showing real concern about fetuses that have graduated to the point of being actual humans who need things like food, shelter, health care, education, and a loving family in a supportive community, I'll start giving their cause more credence. Until then, please shut the fuck up.

On another issue, we here in Florida will be able to vote on November 4th on whether or not to make it a part of our constitution that marriage will be defined as being a union between one man and one woman. I wrote about this when they were still collecting signatures on petitions to get this on the ballot and I predicted then they'd get enough signatures and yes, they did. So. It will soon be possible to ensure that all our now-human-being fetuses are raised in happy little man-woman households where all children should be raised because that's worked out so well for society. I don't understand why it is, but these same people seem to be the biggest anti-abortion folks too when you'd think that they'd allow women who are not in secure and happy little man-woman marriages to abort their unborn children seeing as how they are not going to be raised properly, but I guess what they'd really like is for any sort of sexual behavior to be limited to the lucky people in those man-woman LEGAL marriages and that every one else should abstain and then there would be no unwanted pregnancies.

God would like that and so would they. And to prove this, they don't like the idea of anyone using contraceptives, either.

Why God would give people the desire to have sex when they didn't want that sex to result in babies (or even, God forbid) that sex was between two people of the same sex making it impossible to result in babies is something not addressed in the Bible as far as I know, but we do know that God doesn't like it, even though He did somehow screw up and let it happen. I suppose this is where Satan comes in.

I'm just sick and tired of people who believe in a God I don't being given the power to tell others what to do with their lives, their bodies, and their families and defining for all of us what love is, what families are, and who should and should not be having sex.

Thank-you for listening.

Now let's all quit wallowing, be grateful for the miracle of the rain, and get out and vote.

3 comments:

  1. We got a shocking blanket of snow, instead of your deluge.
    Also back on my feet and swinging again :) Choosing is a good word.

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  2. I do agree, one of my daughters , a single mom lesbian, just CHOSE ( I don't know the specifics, 2 donor-competive sperm..oh well , the baby is beautiful) to have another child, Jonah Lucan 12/10/07 and she would like to marry her fiance if it was legal to do so. Our government does not like choice for the common man or woman. It robs them of power over us. I just saw the movie Astronaut Farmer, it was about believing, as we did when we were children, in dreams..inspired me. I do live in an area where my dreams could go unnoticed by the "man" for quite awhile. So maybe...

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  3. But why must we hide our dreams from the man?
    And why can't two people who love each other and create a family together get married?
    Jeez. I'll marry 'em. Might not be legal but it'll be sweet.
    Congratulations on the new grandbaby!

    And QG- so glad to hear that you're not wallowing now either.
    Snow? Isn't that that white stuff that's really cold?

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