{"id":763,"date":"2009-04-08T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/04\/08\/same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T06:49:00","slug":"same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/04\/08\/same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hey John…<\/p>\n

I guess I don’t always think that there are others reading my letters to you.\u00a0 Some times I just yack as if I am talking to you.\u00a0 Well I got a few “hellos” from readers checking in with me today to see if I was okay.\u00a0 I am okay.\u00a0 Actually I am very okay and I appreciate the love and care in seeking me out.\u00a0 I love you guys.<\/p>\n

So, I did a little rant last night.\u00a0 There are times in my life that I just don’t understand people.\u00a0 I reach a point that I am just stunned at what a human can do to another human.\u00a0 It is not that I am in despair over how we act.\u00a0 I have more hope and faith than the word despair.\u00a0 No, I am just stunned.\u00a0 Stunned that a person can decide to kill himself and take out 15 other people along the way.\u00a0 I am stunned that we are capable of blowing up a car and killing those around us…not only once but 6 times in 72 hours.\u00a0 I am stunned that a person can get up and go to work one day as a receptionist and have a man come in and shoot her and all her co-workers.\u00a0 I am stunned that a father can kill himself and his children just so his ex-wife doesn’t get them.\u00a0 These are desperate people.\u00a0 Why not just kill themselves.\u00a0 How did this get so big that one feels they must bring others along with them in death?<\/p>\n

There are times I ignore this…times I feel compassion…times I look for a reason…times I wonder about what needs to play out here…what is the bigger picture?\u00a0 But the last few days I have felt astonished that I share this planet with individuals who choose to kill innocent people as they kill themselves.\u00a0 Don’t they even get it that there is no “get out of jail free” card.\u00a0 These issues will still exist on the other side.\u00a0 We are here to learn and leaving school early doesn’t get rid of the lesson.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The media doesn’t even know what to say.\u00a0 We all just tell the story and shake our heads because these events are so far off the moral richter scale.\u00a0 We don’t even teach these things to our kids.\u00a0 We tell them to stay away from drugs, use a designated driver when drinking and “don’t shake the baby”.\u00a0 Do we now need curriculum that covers if you feel like suicide please do it by yourself?\u00a0 Harsh sounding isn’t that?\u00a0 Even writing those words are hard.\u00a0 Suicide is a scary topic.\u00a0 We dance around that subject.\u00a0 Death is scary to people yet not talking about it will not make it go away.\u00a0 I do believe we have the right to end our own lives.\u00a0 I sure hope someone chooses differently because again…they still need to attend to the issues either here or at another time.\u00a0 For some reason we still can’t manage that “thou shall not kill” simple rule.\u00a0 Maybe since our society does not respect that simple rule it trickles down to the single individual.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Maybe my empathy button is on overdrive right now.\u00a0 My heart just aches for the terror and dispair felt by others in those last few moments on this earth.\u00a0 I would like mother earth to just say “okay cut it out…enough already”.\u00a0 Maybe we have to say it.<\/p>\n

My day began to balance me with cleaning.\u00a0 Much thinking happens while cleaning.\u00a0 It’s a nice meditation.\u00a0 I then did 5 hours of errands.\u00a0 I don’t make a “good girl” because shopping is my least favorite activity.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

It began going to the dentist to pick up our new electric toothbrush.\u00a0 On the way I heard the good news about our legislature overriding the govenor’s veto of same-sex marriage.\u00a0 I was so happy I felt like dancing in the car.\u00a0 I got to the office and it was quiet in there.\u00a0 I approached the 3 receptionists and said “You probably don’t talk politics in the office however did you hear?”.\u00a0 One said “oh we do talk plotics and much more”.\u00a0 One out of the three had just heard and we checked our responses and saw we were all happy.\u00a0 We did the “yes to equality” dance.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Now I am more aware that there are readers of this blog who may not share my same opinion.\u00a0 I hope over time you may see the equality of this event.\u00a0 If not, know we can still exist side by side.\u00a0 I love seeing that more and more we are becoming more equal.\u00a0 To allow two people the right to marry whether they have a different skin color…religion..or are the same sex.\u00a0 This is only good.\u00a0 Hopefully Obama will pick up the wave and work this at a federal level.\u00a0 My children’s children may one day write a paper in school about how odd that a law was required to create a marrage for 2 people just as Gabe is surprised that there were separate water fountians for blacks and whites.\u00a0 This is only good.<\/p>\n

Gabe & I finished the evening with lacrosse in the snow…yes falling snow in Jericho.\u00a0 Satori and I ran.\u00a0 And tonight Gabe & I watched “Yes Man” with Jim Carrey.\u00a0 Just say “yes”. <\/p>\n

Well, I am off to a bath and then bed.\u00a0 Sleep well John.\u00a0 love…d <\/p>\n

I think I will end with Brit F.’s myspace quote.\u00a0 I believe in the world when a 17 year old feels compelled to quote this…
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