I don't get it.

I don't know why people have to be such homophobes.

What are you so afraid of anyways?

Just let other people live their lives and go right on living yours.

We all have the right to the pursuit of happiness. What right do you have to hinder that persuit of a person you may not even know?

America is based on freedom of religion, which also constitutes freedom FROM religion if one so chooses.

Separation of church and state was something the founding fathers valued deeply.

Religion was to have no place in government.

I think that is made pretty clear, as Thomas Jefferson himself said actually said "In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own" and "Christianity neither is, nor ever was, part of the common law."

There are no laws against all-you-can-eat buffets, against eating pork, men having long hair, or wearing clothing made from two kinds of fabrics.

You have every right to hold your own beliefs.

But enacting a law forcing people to live according to those beliefs is just wrong.

Just because gay marriage is allowed doesn't mean you have to get one.

You can be against gay marriage on a personal standpoint, but vote for it because you believe in freedom and personal choice.

It doesn't matter what you say, if you choose to enforce a law that takes away such a central right, you do not stand for freedom.

You stand for repression. You stand for discrimination. You stand for hate.

It is discriminatory legislation.

Maybe you are for civil unions for same sex couples, just not marriage. Keep them separate, but they can be equal.

After all, history is proof of how well these sorts of things work. I mean there was nothing at all wrong with the "separate but equal" schooling and facilities for African Americans, right? Worked just as well, and totally fair.

There is nothing wrong with believing homosexuality is wrong, as long as you don't hatefully shove it in other people's faces with a federal/state law. That is a terrible infringement on freedom.

Being against something, fine. Its respectable to have your own beliefs and stick by them. But when you are hateful, I have to wonder what it is you are so afraid of. Trying to repress the feelings you have within your own self? Maybe its time you come out of the closet....

How do you...?

I don't understand how you do it.

How do you know just how to take away my sadness and replace it with joy?
How do you manage to creep into my thoughts all through the day and put a little smile on my face?

Somehow, you are making my hurt disappear and teaching me how to love again.

And I am forever in your debt.

Puddle-wonderful.

I love that description.
It gives me sudden inspiration to paint.

But alas, I know I would not be able to translate what I see in my head onto the paper.

I wish I were an artist.

Send me on my way.

So its been forever since I've actually posted a blog. That one I stole on December 10th doesn't really count.

New Years Eve we went with my cousin and her boyfriend to the House of Blues to see Rusted Root, which was amazingg. (I still owe you guys for the drinks, and I will pay.) Then New Years Day we hung out at grandmas and ate and played games. At dinner grandma set a plate for grandpa which made everyone cry. He always hated salad and grandma always wanted him to have some so she'd give him just a few pieces of lettuce, and she did this year to. Then when it sat there, she laughed/cried lovingly how like always, he didn't eat it, and thats Jim for you.

One of the stuffed gorillas he loved sits on my bed comforting me when I miss him. I'm thinking of getting a gorilla tattoo I designed in memory of him. He was all tattooed so its very fitting, the kind of thing he really would have appreciated....