Glad that is solved

I don't always rant. Sometimes I have saner, more calm moments. Lately I have been thinking about what I want to be when I grow up and I've decided I, like so  many, don't really want to grow up. I tried. I got married and divorced and then decided not to marry again. Long ago I decided not to have children because they are a real commitment. You can't divorce a child and you can't exchange them. They are yours! Well, some people have abandoned or abused their children but that is not how the relationship is supposed to work. So, if you don't think you can live up to the rules you should not have children. But you can try marriage and if that doesn't work you can get divorced. I'm a responsible adult. I work, I vote, I pay taxes, sometimes I even obey speed limits, but I wish I had the sense of adventure and happy-go-lucky-ness that I had as a kid. I wish I didn't know about all the things in the world that really hurt us.

Glad that is solved.

So now I'll address this issue of gay marriage and maybe this will be one of my quiet rants. Love is hard enough to find and who knows what brings love between two people, what makes it last, and what makes it work, so if you find the right partner and both of you want a legal union why not? I cannot see how two people of the same gender who marry can erode or threaten or destroy the man - woman marriage ideal because from what I see it is not always ideal. Sometimes love goes bad whether it's man - woman, man - man or woman - woman. Nor can I believe that a child raised by a gay or lesbian couple will turn out to be homosexual. Maybe but maybe not. I just think that love is hard to find and keep so if two people want to share life together they should be able to do so without being ostracized.

Glad that is solved.

Then I saw this today in the Huffington Post: "The Abstinence Education Reallocation Act, brought forth by Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.) and Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Valentine's Day, seeks to award $550 million in Affordable Care Act grants over five years to programs that provide teenagers with abstinence-only education." I think maybe some education about sex and birth control, vaccinations for diseases, condoms, etc would be a lot better than abstinence education. I was a teenager. I know the biological urge to have sex is pretty darned strong. I have to wonder if any of the men sponsoring this bill practiced abstinence or if they just used a rubber. Really? Just say no? Really?

Glad that is solved.

And now I'll leave you with this thought and I might offend some people with it but that's the chance I take in writing and you take in reading. I read those signs in front of churches. Sometimes they are quite clever but the one that says Pray to Jesus because he answers prayers? I just want to say, to all of you who are praying for war and famine and drought and blizzards and floods and hate, please stop!

Good night.