Homosexuality anyone? Oddly enough with-in the past 24 hours I have heard two people talking about lesbians in their families. I personally have a gay aunt and I am very pro-gay rights.

In English class today, I heard one of my fellow students talking about how her sister "left her husband for an ugly-ass woman" and how "she won't have her daughter be around that sinful lifestyle". This woman was no Kate Moss herself and the daughter she was talking about was born out of wedlock and her father is black. Her own behavior was much less then honorable, she obviously is living a sinful lifestyle because she had a child out of wedlock and many of the same ppl that see being gay as wrong, also would see inter-racial relationships as wrong as well. I started to wonder, since when do we punish people simply because they "sinned" (btw the bible never directly says "do not be a homosexual") ? We still talk to family members to lie, cheat, steal, even disobey their parents. We still talk to family members who have jealousy issues, who overindulge themselves, some people even talk to family members who have addictions, family members who have abused us and family members in jail. Shouldn't love in a family be unconditional? Shouldn't sin be between a person and god?

My second conversation was with my boyfriend about his aunt who is a lesbian. His aunt lost the love of her life because she refused to come out to her parents. Her parents however figured it out pretty quickly that her "friend" wasn't just a friend. They made the other woman feel uncomfortable and banned her from family gatherings. My boyfriend's aunt was completely rejected by her mother and the family and lost her girlfriend. My boyfriend related it to our relationship, because his mother disapproves of our relationship. Not because it is immoral, but because I am from a different finacial background (well kind of) and they think I am "taking advantage of him". Anyways, he was recently kicked out of his house and was told that he was no longer welcomed into the family, after we have dated for almost 6 months. Contrasting these two situations which show similair reactions, its not the lifestyle ppl have a problem with. Its the fact that THEY don't have control over someone in their household, that they failed to teach their son or daughter a value that they should use through out their lives.

However, we have no right to control other people. I have no right to disown a member of my family because I couldn't control them, i couldn't prevent them from something I told them was wrong. Its not my bussiness who my siblings have sex with. Niether is it the responsibility of our government to dictate which values we should or should not have, they should not have the right to control our behavior.

Nature is a pretty amazing. Look at this pine tree. Its probably 80 years old and can live for hundreds more. Yesturday was great, after raining in the morning the sun finally came out at the end of the day. I ran outside after coming home from school, throwing my baggy sweat shirt somewhere and taking out my camera phone. Finally a day that was nice enough to take some pictures and wear a t-shirt outside.
I am always fasinated by the variety of color in nature. Look at the picture above and below. These flowers are the same species yet have drastically different colors. I guess this is half the product of evolution (the purple flowers are brighter so more bees are attracted to them) half horticulture (there is a market for pretty white flowers). If only we had evolved into different colors through evolution. Green, blues, purples. That would be so cool. But I guess we had to be neutral colors to hide from the preditors. Any purple or blue humans would have died out pretty quickly in the ice age.
The picture below is of as branch of the holly tree outside my house. Its like 40 ft high and probably as old as the house itself. It was so giant I didn't think it was a holly tree until a few days after we moved here. I didn't even think holly bushes could get as big as the one in my yard. Unfortunately some of my pictures didn't come out. My camera phone is pretty decient for a digital camera (way better then the first one I had, which cost as much as the phone itself). Yet light, a shaking hand and using the "zoom" have a negitive effect on alot of pictures. The photos also seem alittle flat. I don't know why that is or how to fix it. I guess I'll have to countinue to figure all this out through trial and error. I can't wait for summer, I want to go camping already.

Today blogie invented a new word: republican + rubish = Repubish. Repubish simply means anything that the republican's say that isn't fact. Like economy is doing better then ever before. Repubish! Or George Bush is the best president ever. Repubish! Or feminism is the root of all evil. Repubish! So please shout the word anything you hear a republican start ranting about how gays shouldn't get married or that this country was so much better in the 50's or about how abortion is murder. Its all just repubish!
<--- Major Repubish!