Church vs Church

An article in Time caught my attention this morning as nearly every article about Gay marriage does these days. I have never been a huge advocate of the institution of marriage but this issue for me is not about "marriage" it's about equality, equal rights under the law. "Freedom and Liberty for all."

They're discussing whether "Gay Marriage" will pit churches against each other or not. This is something I just don't understand. I fully believe a church has the right to discriminate against those who do not share their beliefs. If the church does not want to perform marriages between two men or two women then they don't have to do it.

This is what I don't understand about these churches they make it out as though by giving equal rights to Gay people they will then have to perform Gay marriages. As far as I'm concerned they can keep on preaching their ideas and beliefs, I don't agree with them but they have a right to believe whatever they want.

I do understand their concern that if Gay people are allowed equal rights then Lord forbid we might have to start thinking their "chosen lifestyle" is OK. We can't have that! I mean really how can the church continue to dictate how we live our lives if we were to start thinking maybe what they are teaching is BS?

I wonder what would happen if people actually picked up a copy of the bible and started to read it! We could have a revolution on our hands. Can you imagine a group of Catholics actually reading the bible for themselves and not having a Pope tell them what is in it?!? Imagine if a person was to read more than one bible, something other than King James version. That always gets me "King James" version that should tell people right away that this is someone elses interpretation of the original. And who wrote the original, a group of men attempting to control the masses? The bible should come with disclaimers on it like any book of fiction, "this is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously."

I don't know I guess if the biggest issue facing our country is whether or not Gay people should be able to marry and be treated equally under the law then our country is not that bad off. Here I thought we were in an economic crisis, we have terrorists hovering over us ready to attack, global warming, people dying of diseases, living in the streets, a war against drugs, a war in several countries...

I'm happy to know our biggest worry is those damn Gay people wanting equal rights.

Canada Knows Math

So the other day I'm entering a contest to win a new energy efficient refrigerator and upon reading the rules this is what I found:

"If a Canadian resident is selected as a winner he/she will be required to complete an unaided mathematical skill questions before being declared an official winner."

I kid you not!

I'm not sure if this is their way of getting Canadian residents to learn math or you need to know math in order to use a refrigerator?!? Hmm, I'm not really good at math but I've never had a problem using the fridge and the size of my ass can attest to that!

I think this is actually a good idea, we Americans are always getting bad academic scores and we're obese. If you have to answer a math or any question for that matter before you can open the door to the fridge that could help solve both problems. The questions could be generated for your age group and there could be bonus drawers in the fridge where all the "good" stuff is kept. You only get fruit and vegetables for the easy questions but you will be rewarded with chocolate or beer for the super hard questions. This could be applied throughout the kitchen and pantry. And vending machines! I think most schools have vending machines, the kids would have to answer a question correctly before they get that candy bar or soda. If you don't answer correctly you lose your money. I think I'm onto something here. Wonder how I could get this idea rolling, I bet there's money in this idea... remember you heard it here first, don't be swiping my idea.

A Gaygathering Storm

A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch

Today's Horoscope

April 19, 2009
Capricorn (12/22-1/19)
Something big is coming, and it might come before you are completely ready for it! So preparation is the big theme for you today, and you'd be wise to double check your finances. Look for opportunities to travel -- do you have all your shots? Is your passport valid? There are clues dropping regarding all things romantic, and by the end of the day you will probably have enough information to make an educated guess. Things are going to start getting exciting!

New York Govenor David Paterson

"We come to this debate with the wind at our back. The events in Connecticut and Massachusetts, the decisions in Iowa and in Vermont, give us the feeling that we can be effective. Rights should not be stifled by fear. What we should understand is that silence should not be a response to injustice."

Hitchhiker

I guess it's another sign of Spring when the bugs come out. This little fella latched on when I got into my car at work and stayed with me until about a block before my house. Nice travel companion.

Who Says Hard Work Doesn't Pay?

Look at what I found while raking leaves...



A nice shiny new quarter

Weekend of Curling

Talk about yin and yang, last weekends curling was a disaster and this weekend it redeemed itself. The Mixed Wind Up is a super fun bonspiel and really well organized. The bonspiel started Friday night with dinner at 5 and our first game at 6PM. We played against, the McHugh team (Margeaux's team) and they pretty much handed us our asses. Not that we played poorly or anything we just could not get the closest rock to the button, sometimes it just goes like that; they one pointed us to death.

I found myself in a bit of an odd position though; Loafy was playing on the sheet next to us and so she and I were chatting a bit while playing. She pointed out to me that the skip on the opposing team (Margeaux's team) was not releasing his rock before the hog line. I had not been paying much attention as that does not happen often. Most people I've played against release well before the hog line. Anyway, that got me to start watching him and sure enough it appeared as though he held onto the rock and released it after the rock crossed the hog line. Loafy saw it twice and I saw it once so I mentioned it to my team mates thinking it should be something the skip of my team addressed.

During the Women's 5 and Under in March the opposing team thought that I held my rock past the hog line and said something to my skip who in turn mentioned it to me, so I made sure that it did not happen.

I don't think Bob (our skip) said anything to him and I wasn't sure how to address it so I just left it alone but it did make the game a little less fun. Their skip made a lot of really good shots and I had a hard time not thinking that they should not count because he was crossing the hog line before releasing. I finally just gave up watching him shoot. Aside from that it was a fun game and as I've learned this year it put us into the bracket that we should be in for the rest of the bonspiel.

Saturday morning started at 8:15 with a game against team Albers; Loafy's and Nancee's team! YAY, what a fun way to start the morning. It was a fun back and forth game with it coming down to skip's rocks. They won! We had a nice break of about an hour then back on the ice for our second game of the day against team Johnson (Rebecca's team). Another fun close game and this time we won! YAY now onto game three.

At 3:30 we went up against team Strack (Muffy's team) the winner of this game goes onto play in the 4th event! The way things were shaping up if we win and if team Albers wins we could meet them again in the 4th event. Tada! We won! YAY onto the 4th event at 5:30. Fortunately a couple games went a little longer which gave us about 20 minutes to relax before the final events were to be played.

At 5:45 we took to the ice against team Weber; I didn't know anyone on this team but Nancee and Lisa had played against them and lost so I wasn't sure how we would fair. The final events were supposed to be 8 end games but most teams had decided to play only 6 ends or less. I wanted to play 8 but was out voted so the plan was to play only 6 ends. Afterwards I was glad for it as I was seriously hungry. The first two ends were fine but the 3rd end was a disaster they scored 4 on us. Oops, how are we coming back from that with only 3 more ends to play. Well we did it! The game was tied to start the 6th end and they had the hammer. Clay had been skipping this game and he really stepped up to the plate with a fantastic shot! He promoted one of our rocks to the button with a whole lot of guards in front of it. The Weber skip tried her best with her final rock but was unable to put a rock in the house.

We won the 4th event! What a great way to end the season.

An Unholy Alliance part 3 of 6