same here. Religion is never a good excuse if you don't like gay people. Theres so many contradictions in the argument. It is my personal belief that some passages in the holy text are outdated and no longer practiced. Why should gay people getting married be any different than cutting your hair, Eating pork and using a football (flesh of a swine,) Going to fortune tellers and calling psychic hotlines, "pulling out" during sex, No Tattoos, Divorce, Letting people without testicles into church, wearing gold, eating seafood, etc etc. I mean these are all practices most of which derived from Leviticus, which is in the "laws" that says homosexuality is an abomination is as well. If some Christians use this dialogue and pump out the main verse about homosexuality and disregard the rest then they aren't practicing what they preach. Idk call me a bit of a modernist but there are some things in the bible that should be allowed to be cast aside, and let the messages of unity, faith, prosperity, guidance and hope strive. This world is filled with enough rage and anger. The bible's message shouldn't be stretched and skewed by people to fit their needs of talking points. This is why I get so frustrated with religion, it is something a lot of people wear on their sleeve and dont follow the main messages. I may not be religious but I try to live my life being honest and kind to others in my day to day interactions. Granted I and everyone has their bad days from here to there but still if I am following my life in a well manner as anyone else what does it matter what religion I am or anyone is. It should be a personal exploration journey for everyone and not just stick to what people tell them they should believe or what they want to believe. Religion is something that is deeply personal to so many people and when a group of people take the message and use it to their advantage, It just makes me sick. Good grief, sorry for rambling lmao. It's a very hot button issue that I am passionate about given my history with my coming to terms with sexuality, and struggles with my churches and religion on the subject. Just hearing what happened to that guys, partner and his family makes me sick. I cannot stand hatred for anyone no matter what they are or who they are. Yes I may make jokes, but jokes cover up the fact that these things bother me so much. Intolerance is something that I don't grasp why it still stands in the human psyche that I crack jokes and whatnot. Thats the only way to deal with these sad realities in society is to try and stay optimistic, crack a joke and fight for whats right. Anyways enough of me rambling...
It's just like today with the North Carolina vote lol. Billy Graham the senile old troll has come out from under the bridge and started blasting this bill to ban gay marriage. Well if people actually read the bill, they would see its a hell of a lot more complicated than banning gay marriage. lol. Voters are voting based upon one issue and not all of them attached to the bill. Ignorance is bliss I guess %-( lol
President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.
"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer.”
The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own. But he said he’s confident that more Americans will grow comfortable with gays and lesbians getting married, citing his own daughters’ comfort with the concept.
“It’s interesting, some of this is also generational,” the president continued. “You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know, believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”
Roberts asked the president if First Lady Michelle Obama was involved in this decision. Obama said she was, and he talked specifically about his own faith in responding.
“This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I’ll be as president.”
Previously, Obama has moved in the direction of supporting same-sex marriage but has consistently stopped short of outright backing it. Instead, he’s voiced support for civil unions for gay and lesbian couples that provide the rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples, though not defined as “marriage.” At the same time, the president has opposed efforts to ban gay marriage at the state level, saying that he did not favor attempts to strip rights away from gay and lesbian couples.
The president’s position became a flashpoint this week, when Vice President Joe Biden pronounced himself “absolutely comfortable” with allowing same-sex couples to wed.
Obama aides insisted there was no daylight between the positions held by the president and his vice president when it comes to legal rights, but as other prominent Democrats also weighed in in favor of gay marriage, the disconnect became difficult for the White House to explain away.
The announcement completes a turnabout for the president, who has opposed gay marriage throughout his career in national politics. In 1996, as a state Senate candidate, he indicated support for gay marriage in a questionnaire, but Obama aides later disavowed it and said it did not reflect the candidate’s position.
In 2004, as a candidate for the US Senate, he cited his own religion in framing his views: “I'm a Christian. I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”
He maintained that position through his 2008 presidential campaign, and through his term as president, until today.
As president in 2010, Obama told ABC’s Jake Tapper that his feelings about gay marriage were “constantly evolving. I struggle with this.” A year later, the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “I’m still working on it.”
“I probably won't make news right now, George,” Obama said in October 2011. “But I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.”
Obama’s decision has political connotations for the fall.
The issue divides elements of the Democratic base, with liberals and gay-rights groups eager to see the president go farther, but with gay marriage far less popular among African-American voters.
Just yesterday, in North Carolina, voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage. President Obama carried North Carolina in 2008, and its status as a 2012 battleground was guaranteed by Democrats’ decision to hold their convention in Charlotte this summer.
Obama’s likely Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, opposes gay marriage, and fought his state’s highest court when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, when Romney was governor. Romney said on the campaign trail Monday that he continues to oppose gay marriage.
“My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman,” Romney said. “That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point. … Or ever, by the way.”
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) -- Wilson Perez believes his father's killer is one of the hundreds of stable workers who live and care for horses in an area known as the "backside" of the Churchill Downs horse racing grounds. "I imagine he's wandering around here," Wilson Perez told CNN during an exclusive interview near the barn where his father's body was found. "It has to be someone who lives here because no one else can come in."
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) -- Wilson Perez believes his father's killer is one of the hundreds of stable workers who live and care for horses in an area known as the "backside" of the Churchill Downs horse racing grounds. "I imagine he's wandering around here," Wilson Perez told CNN during an exclusive interview near the barn where his father's body was found. "It has to be someone who lives here because no one else can come in."
HOLY SHIT
LOL How have you not heard about this till now? hahaha its clogging up the news. Between this and "blah blah Obama support gay marriage hurting him this fall blah blah" lol I had to turn off CNN because this is all that is on lol Horses and Gays. lol
Anybody wanna go to Camp Ellis? A dismantled American concentration camp for Nazis? hahaha Other than that Ive got cornfields, and a crazy woman who fucks her dogs on the outskirts of town lol...
LOL let's put it this way, my hometown is still a "sundown town" While there are no signs posted, a lot of people end up chased out of town...and I am staying there for the summer...fml lmao
And this went on for all this time without anyone pointing it out to them? (Of course, if I had resided in that town, it wouldn't have taken nine years, mind you.)
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This guy is building an exact replica of Titanic and it is set to make it's maiden voyage from England to America in 2016.
http://www.news12.com/index.jsp?regionId=1®ion_name=LI&live=true
Mysterious thing time.
Oh my god...check out this video....
Pottermore user name: SilverQuest212
Don't worry either, it's not some Kony2012 nonsense either.
It's just like today with the North Carolina vote lol. Billy Graham the senile old troll has come out from under the bridge and started blasting this bill to ban gay marriage. Well if people actually read the bill, they would see its a hell of a lot more complicated than banning gay marriage. lol. Voters are voting based upon one issue and not all of them attached to the bill. Ignorance is bliss I guess %-( lol
But did Tom kill himself or was it an accident?
:O :O :O :O :O
Obama.
Love that guy (:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-reaffirms-opposition-gay-marriage-210253937.html
What an absolute douche.
It amazes me the ignorance of some folk.
John Travolta is facing a scandal that claims he likes to fondle his masseurs:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/09/john-travolta-s-masseur-lawsuits-part-of-a-long-history-of-gay-rumors.html
http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/10/john-travolta-masseur-lawsuit-plane-flight-new-york-city/
Pregnant Man's Divorce - Wife goes on rampage, Video now released:
http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/10/pregnant-man-thomas-beatie-nancy-video-attack/
Kentucky Derby Murder Plot continues to Unravel:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/justice/churchill-downs-slaying-son/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
"I imagine he's wandering around here," Wilson Perez told CNN during an exclusive interview near the barn where his father's body was found. "It has to be someone who lives here because no one else can come in."
HOLY SHIT
Just take out the spaces
http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews-22772304/elementary-school-misspells-its-own-name-for-9-years-29243827.html
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The world is not ending this year. Mayan calendar reaching 3500 is discovered..