But first....

Something my dearly beloved Capi posted that needs to be shared.

She and some others of my friends, such as Br.William and Lady Niniane and others I could name, exemplify what Christianity should be in my book...loving, hard-working, non-judgmental and above all, LOVING.

She gave me permission to share this and I'm copying her text since it's f-locked:


The lady who sent me that email (fwd) about homosexuals and the church yesterday responded to me with a *loving* list of reasons (Biblical list) that i should review (just in case i'd not read my Bible) so i would know better in the future, why she was correct in her position. At first, i merely did not want to engage her, but upon thinking on it overnight.... here is my response to her.

I merely side-stepped the issue of whether or not homosexuality is a sin or not; it's a very tangled issue, and not the main issue in my book.


"I don't know you, nor do you know me. It is not my desire to guess where you are in your walk with the Lord, nor to challenge how great is your faith. I do not presume to judge you; that is for God alone.

Yes, i've read His Word, and i believe every word. I believe we are all sinners and every single one of us have sinned. I have noticed that He spends a LOT more time telling us how much He despises, for example, lying, than He spends on homosexuality. I've done comparison studies. Wow, He REALLY must not like lying. And all of us have lied. Every last one of us.

I believe it's the SIN, however, that He loathes, not the sinner. I think this is about hating the sin, not the sinner. Yet the church continues to revile the homosexual. I don't think the church focuses on the sin in this case, but on the person. We shun homosexuals, we persecute them, we do all manner of hate crimes on their person.... all in the name of Christ. I cannot support that

Jesus summed up the law in two brief statements, saying we must love God above all things, and love one another above ourselves. And that means EVERYONE. Homosexuals are just as much my neighbor as my husband, my best friend, my offspring, my pastor, that alcoholic living under the overpass, that ex-con who was released from prison two weeks ago, that shut-in who lives alone and pines for someone to visit her, and a host of other forgotton souls that we refuse to see as we hurry on our way not to be late to church.

I believe it is time for the church to wake up and really begin to live the lives of love Christ wanted us to lead two thousand years ago.

Your sister,


Now I'm really getting offa the time-sucking computer!

During a break...

Waiting for my china silk and brocade to come out of the rinse cycle after dying it.

Oldwolf, I found it...I'd posted it in the Cooking LJ group 'cause its very ramply.

So here it is:
( adventures with roasting garden tomatoes )

Next time I make it or when I bring the sauce out of the freezer, I'm adding some honey to make it a bit less tangy. I read somewhere recently here that adding honey solved the problem of a nnot-quite-right seasoning dilemma.

NOT...

Sorry, not following along with the crowd doing the sexual purity meme that is currently around here. I decided to play along until I got to the "Fucking Sick" part if it where I saw "practicing polyamory" listed. The meme ceased being amusing right there.

I have a thing about blindly following labels, even as unconsciously or 'innocently' as in a meme. It goes all the way back to "pollock" jokes and fat jokes and even blonde jokes. It goes all the way up to kids today saying, "Oh, that's so gay!" to mean something stupid or unfashionable.

Prejudice is prejudice, folks. Yes, maybe I'm touchy because I am poly. But what if it put being bald or being overweight or liking to game under that category. It makes a statement that anyone who practices polyamory is a depraved person. If you actually have that opinion, fine; you are entitled to your own opinion. But if you don't, whether you are poly or not, and you let that question pass you by without a blink, you are allowing bigotry.

Ultrasensitive? Maybe...but then, I've always called people on fat jokes and loser jokes and 'retarded' jokes and race and gender jokes all my life and I'm not about to stop now.

It's not that far away from "towel-head" or "nigger" or "kike" or any of the other pejorative labels we'd be aghast to hear today. It's not that horribly far away from a gang of drunks beating up on the 'limp-wristed' fella from school.

The only way to fight prejudice is to call it and not put up with it, no matter where you find it.

Prejudice is prejudice; bigotry is bigotry.