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Tue 22 Jul 2003

Insanity

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 19:14

You know it’s bad when, on Tuesday, you have to bail on work early to take a nap and try to straighten out your sleep debt.

It’s Youth Week at church. We’re very short of youth counselors right now; stupid church politics [I think] have had our youth coordinator, Jeff, leave the organization. [I'd explain, but there's a chance that people from my church read this site, so I will shut up.] Joy, the pastor’s daughter, had been helping us, but she’s been hired by another local church as their part-time youth director. [Reminds me of when Aldersgate tried to get me to take the job back in the day ... except Joy's 19, and I was 21 ... but I digress.] The other counselors have, apparently, fled like rats from a ship. I’m sure they have their own things going, but … it doesn’t leave those left holding the bag feel very happy.

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Tue 01 Jul 2003

We’re not all close-minded jerks!

Filed under: — Geof F. Morris @ 00:55

I’ve been too busy moving to peck about this, but since I can’t settle down right now, I’ll peck a few words on Bill Frist’s stupidity.

Yeah, he wants to outlaw gay marriage. For my two loyal gay readers who know me to be both Christian and moderately conservative, I gotta say, “Hey, now, we’re not all this damn stupid.”

Now, let me be clear; I think homosexuality is a sin. But then I also think that drinking to excess is a sin, that gluttony is a sin, and that swearing is a sin, and I can charitably be categorized as a sinner in those situations. And while marriage is a sacrament inside the church, in society, I think it’s simply a legal contract.

My opinion on the secular definition of marriage is largely shaped by my boss, himself a conservative, Methodist engineer. But Ed’s been through the divorce wringer once, and he knows that what the church holds sacred is often not considered as same by society. And, frankly, that’s fine with me. I’ve studied enough political science to believe in a secularized political society. Why? Well, for one, America, as an immigrant nation, will always be factionalized. [Federalist 10 is always the popular cite for this, and Madison fairly nails it.] And for the second, one needs to look only to the Catholic Church to see that religion has no place in influencing government.

Now, I will stop here, as I sliced the crap out of the pad of my right index finger today … hurts like a mother to type.


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