Jumping Frenchman of Maine
Except I live in Minnesota now.
i tried
but the old devils, they found me in my hut
they poured through the windows, they cornered me
and i cried out, to no one, “I give up”.
“Why do nice people choose the wrong people to date?”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Can we make them know they deserve more?”
“We can try.”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a good movie.
This is a “guest post” I did for my good friend Sandy on her blog about living with osteogenesis imperfecta called “Perfectly Imperfecta”. I did this a while ago, but just recently revisited it today and decided to post it here cos, hey.. why not?
http://perfectlyimperfecta.blogspot.com/2011/12/different-perspective-3.html
“So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. When they had come to the vineyards of Timnah, a young lion came roaring to meet him. But the spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and although he had no weapons, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a kid. However, on the journey to speak for the woman, he did not mention to his father or mother what he had done. Later, when he returned to marry the woman who pleased him, he stepped aside to look at the remains of the lion and found a swarm of bees and honey in the lion’s carcass. So he scooped the honey out into his palms and ate it as he went along. When he came to his father and mother, he gave them some to eat, without telling them that he had scooped the honey from the lion’s carcass”
-Judges 14:5-9
…I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of marriage is one: the other is the quite different question - how far Christians, if they are voters or Members of Parliament, ought to try their views of marriage on the rest of the community by embodying them in divorce laws. A great many people seem to think that if you are a Christian yourself you should try to make divorce difficult for every one. I do not think that. At least I know I should be very angry if the Mohammedans tried to prevent the rest of us from drinking wine. My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christian and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her and her own members.
-CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
He’s talking about divorce, but his logic falls in line perfectly with gay marriage. Lots of Christians hold C.S. Lewis to be some kind of a hero for them.. I wish more would take heed at this statement.
Should Interracial Marriage Be Banned?
If anyone thinks these are good arguments to ban same-sex marriage then they were good arguments to ban interracial marriage.
As for a production note: I was thinking of creating a list like this but it seems I was beat to the punch… by 12 years. eQuality Giving had already compiled such a list so I made this simple image instead.
(via skepticalavenger)
