Blogging Betty
I know, I know: “Where the hell have you been?”
I am sorry, but things have been busy, and well, ya’ll told me not to strip so I had to work my keyboard like it was a pole.
I’m definitely still planning things for this site and trust me when I say it includes a section for PayPal where ya’ll can toss your change into my account.
In any event, yesterday New Hampshire decided to be the sixth state in the union to “send this country to hell” as some of my kinfolk would say.
As I’ve made it clear repeatedly on this here site, I think everyone deserves the right to be miserable. I still remember having a polite debate with a friend (who will probably be somebody’s governor one day) who tried to drill it into my head why civic unions were an appropriate compromise on the issue of gay marriage.
After he finished speaking I responded with three words: Separate but equal.
He gave me that smile like, “Dammit,” and that was that. Civil debate. Yes, pimpin’, I can engage in them.
The other day, I spoke to another friend about my frustration with some religious people. Actually, wait, it’s not religious people per se. It’s people in general who basically regurgitate information passed on to them versus taking the time to learn about a subject before they pontificate on it.
In this instance, though, it just happened to be pseudo religious folk who know about as much about their faith as white people know about s-curls that irked me.
Naturally, gay marriage is a very divisive topic. I’m pretty sure many of you will not agree with my opinion on the matter and that’s fine, but I don’t care for when people cite the Bible on ‘traditional marriage.’
For all of the wonderful lessons in there, people neglect to mention how rape, abuse, and murder are condone in certain instances. Not to mention polygamy, incest, racism, and slavery. Indeed people pick and choose what to believe.
That being said, though this video is satirical, there’s often a lot of truth in humor.
I imagine some will object to this and speak of taking things out of context. To that I say, learn about the history of the word ‘abomination’ and then holla at me about taking things out of context.
I believe in God, I pray, and though I am not perfect, I try to do right by people.
At the same time, certain things never added up to me, and all jokes aside (yes, that includes the Betty video) I truly hope in the future we can have constructive debates about faith, and more importantly, how it affects our governing (which last time I checked, was still supposed to be done separately).
I don’t think religion is bad at all. I think the inclination to use it as a weapon against people, which has happened countless times over centuries, is awful.
lioness411
June 4, 2009 at 6:05 am
I hate when people use religion too when downing gay marriage, I think most people use religion as a crutch and pick out things they agree with and toss out the things they don't agree with (cough!Sherri Shepard,Elisabeth Hasselback cough!) and thats not right and just makes them look stupid, I say if a person doesn't agree with gay marriage, don't marry a gay person! lol
Misty Knight
June 4, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I think the "sanctity" of marraige went out the window soon as "Who Wants To Marry A Midget" aired on Fox years ago. But your right, folks like to pick and chose what sins are the most objectionable, especially in the black community.You can be a former pimp, child molestor or drug dealer, but you bet not be a homosexual!! I don't feel right having the power to veto the happiness of two consenting adults, just because I happen to be heterosexual. Same as I don't feel comfortable with condeming other faiths as a pathway to hell, because they aren't my own. Hence my current struggle with Christianity and organized religion as a whole.
Ive tried to endure my pastor's rants about Canada being the epicenter of EVIIIL because they've allowed public ,transgendered bathrooms. And the tirade about America being built and founded on "Christian Values", and by if making same-sex marraige legal, we'll be on a one-way trip to hell. And the apocolyptic prophecies(guesstimates of 2013), I just can't take it anymore.
klysha
June 5, 2009 at 2:42 pm
It's like you wrote this from inside my head. I totally agree with you on everything you said in this entry.
Christian
June 8, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I knew the issue of gay marriage was going to be a problem early in my teenage life when I was sitting in Sunday school. The teacher asked the class to rank sins to prove that no sin was greater than any other.
All of the students ranked homosexuality as the number one sin over murder, as murder could be justified. Trouble. I believe that anecdote speaks for itself. I can't believe the way society twists truth, as I don't believe it's a sin AT ALL, let alone number one. Not to mention the fact that sins are not ranked in Christianity.