Today’s Thoughts (6/25/11)

A few thoughts on the 25^th of June:

• I was thinking about how they just accepted gay marriage in New York State. As anyone who has read my blog for a while knows, I am in favor of gay marriage. I don’t judge people and I don’t think anyone else should judge people. That is God’s territory. So as long as two people love each other, want to be committed to each other and want to build a life together, go for it. I don’t care if they are gay or straight. Love is love.

• But, in further thinking about gay marriage, I started wondering what people who oppose gay marriage think is going to happen as time rolls on. Do they think that if they ban gay marriage, homosexuality will go away? Do they think that gay people will die off the way the Shakers are dying off? (Shakers being the religion who don’t believe in sex at all so they have to recruit new members. I believe there are like seven people left in the world who follow the Shaker religion). Homosexuality has always existed, even if it was hidden for years. Banning people from marrying because they are gay will not make homosexuality go away. People are born gay. That will always be. And two gay people raising a child does not mean that child will end up gay. If that were the case, then straight parents would never have a gay child. So what harm is there in allowing two people who love each other to get married? How exactly does that impact the life of anyone except the friends and families of the gay couple who now have to buy them a wedding present? I’m not sure what the thinking is of those who oppose gay marriage and what their long term objective would possibly be. Telling two people that they can’t legally get married will not stop them from loving each other and it won’t make homosexuality go away. So why not let people just live their lives?

• On a different note, when is looking out your window considered a bad thing? Apparently when it involves watching my upstairs neighbor being loaded in the back of an ambulance. Yesterday I was making yet another large batch of potato salad for an event at church and an ambulance pulled up right outside my door. I looked outside to see where they were going and watched the paramedics head upstairs. I opened my door so I could see better and, after realizing it would be a while, went back to work on mixing up the salad. After a while, the paramedics helped my neighbor down the stairs and started helping him onto the gurney. As they did that, I went and stood in the door and looked out to watch. One of the paramedics looked up and glared at me. Like he really objected to my watching what was happening. So I moved into the living room and watched through the windows from a spot far enough back that they really couldn’t see me unless they looked directly into my window. What I don’t understand is the dirty look that paramedic gave me. I mean, I was simply glancing out the window of my screen door (the screen is only on the bottom) because something out of the ordinary was happening. I also was concerned about my neighbor and wanted to see if he was alright. There was no need to glare at me like I was doing something wrong. Then again, maybe I misinterpreted the look and it had nothing to do with me. Who knows. I didn’t go out to ask him and will never know why he looked at me the way he did. By the way, my neighbor is back home. I haven’t talked to him yet but at least he didn’t end up staying in the hospital. Hope he will be ok.

• Today is the 25^th of June. Six months since Christmas and six months until Christmas. Time to start thinking about making some Christmas presents. I actually have started one or two. Hopefully this year I will end up giving homemade gifts to everyone. That is the goal at least. I’ll let everyone know if I reach that goal.

I guess that is all for today. Since we are now firmly in the midst of the summer season, maybe tomorrow the weather will cooperate and we will have sunshine and warm temperatures. Maybe if we all think warm sunny thoughts it will help! It certainly wouldn’t hurt.