Bits ‘N Pieces

A soft day today to clear out a few thoughts.  Hopefully most are fun and light. Most of these are off the Internet. 

First,

“Homosexuals do not have an ‘agenda’ that involves brainwashing or converting children to their ways. That’s religion you’re thinking of.”

            ~Author Unknown

I can personally attest to this statement. I am gay and have no agenda. I just want to live my life like anyone else and not be pummeled by negative statements about sexual orientation that the author knows little or nothing about. You want to know what it is like being me, then ask. And don’t try to change me. I am who and what I am. This is how God made me. I've accepted it. Why can’t others? Now, churches, on the other hand have a problem with this and many other things. Not my little church, though. It is just a great place to be loved and accepted. And that’s what I think the Bible is all about.

Second, a word on being a liberal:

            “A Liberal…someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who

welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal’, then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal”…

            ~John F. Kennedy

Amen to that! I’m not a socialist or communist. I’m not an atheist or agnostic. I’m not a pinko. I think of myself as middle of the road. But in our day and age of super conservatism, that makes me a little farther left of those folks, but then they keep moving farther and farther right. That doesn't make me more liberal; it makes them more unreasonable!

Third, and I love this one:

“Senators should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could identify their corporate sponsors.”            ~Anonymous (of course!)

Congressmen should wear similar apparel. One can’t know their agendas without a program, er…uniform!

Fourth, and finally:

            “No soliciting. We are too broke to buy anything.

            We know who we are voting for.

            We have found Jesus.

            Seriously, unless you are selling Thin Mints,

            Please go away!!”

This front door sign fits perfectly for so many households these days. So, please sell me the Thin Mints but bug off about the other stuff.

June 19, 2014