Gay Marriage--What's it to you?

Another LJ user posted this link, and i feel compelled  to post it too, so that my small circle of friends can watch it and, I am hopeful, will pass it on in their own circles.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/invite/SpecialComment

This guy speaks with passion and intelligence.  If I were as eloquent as him, this is what i would say. 

Compare the way this guy talks with assholes like Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh.  Intelligence, eloquence and compassion are definitely not their style.  It's so much more fun to be ignroant and abusive and vicious.  

Anyhow--Gay Marriage--I am in favor of allowing people who love each other to marry.  Why not?  It has no affect on me.  it has no affect on anyone else's marriage.  It's like trying to stop someone else from drinking Diet Pepsi because YOU like Diet Coke.  Dumb.  

Let people live and look for their own joy in life.  Everyone is entitled  to their shot at happiness. 

Ah, Life. it just gets better and better all the time.

I was getting irritated today because my cell phone kept vibrating and vibrating in my pocket during sixth hour.  Finally I looked to see what fuckwit was not getting the clue that I was TEACHING and therefore was not able to pick up the phone.  Well, it was my sister from the Cities.  She had finally just sent me a text which read:  "Mom is in the Rochester hospital for a torn retina.  give me a call." 

Well this was not good news since Mom had a torn retina in her other eye a few years ago which resulted in her not having vision in that eye any more.  She has macular degeneration and has been getting shots in her 'good' eye every month for about 5 months now to slow the progress of the degeneration.  Well, now THAT eye has a torn retina.   Every time we talk about her eyes, she expresses  the fear that she will go blind and that is the one thing that she doesn't think she can handle.

Now going blind seems like a very real possibility.  Everything she loves to do requires vision--she loves to crochet and knit and sew and read and embroider, play cards, play board games with her grandchildren, mess around on the computer, and watch movies.  There is not much of that you can do if you are blind.

I am sure she is scared to death, poor thing.

If you are praying people, please pray that the surgery saves her vision.  it will just kill her if she can't see anymore. 

I am pretty darn sad about this right now.  I am just barely holding it together because i don't want to cry at school.

:(