Hello, religious belief. It's me, Nella.
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ink_n_impIowan judge decides if he has to marry gay couples, then by George, he won't marry ANYONE!
I am honestly...MEH about this. Allow me to explain. I am both angry in the eyeroll sense over the sheer pettiness of it. It's a fucking CIVIL marriage, recognized by the state, not the church. You know, the thing that only cares about services and taxation? And not, you know, if it’s holy before the sight of God?
GET. THE FUCK. OVER IT.
On the other hand...it sort of makes me rebelliously gleeful, in my usual devil’s advocate-y sort of way. "HUZZAH!" says the wicked bit of my soul that is positively allergic to idea of martial commitment*, "What a GREAT IDEA! Let’s make it so NO BODY allowed to get married anymore! Let’s all get equal in the OTHER direction! Who's with me!?”
I donno. This feels like such a wearying case of Your-Doing-It-Wrong-itis. The dude should have just cut his losses and retired. Give unto Caeser, man. Feel free shake your head and sigh regretfully at me and the rest of us damned fools doomed to burn forever in the fires of Hell (….or, roast for near-eternity in Purgatory…just saying. If Oscar Wilde can have a death bed confession/conversion, then hey, there’s still hope) but even Lot turned his back on Sodom and Gomorrah.
(…and then was raped by his two daughters while totally passed out in a drunken stupor.)
(…..Dude, the guy was wasted, how’d he get it UP??)
*I’m really just one of nature’s bachelors. This is becoming more and more startling apparent the older I’m getting.
YE OLDE EDIT:
FORSOOTHE! It appears that this day be Talk Like Shakespeare Day. You Know What That Means!!:
Judge! Thou art a little better thing than earth,
who does not his duty, but only judges
the lesser mortals who to you have come
not for God's Justice, but for what is just.
Sirrah! Of you I shake the dust from my soles,
and save the wedding wine of Cana for another day--
methinks it tastes best shared with lovers and friends,
than with scurrilous scolds and uncharitable nags.
...The Bard, I am Not.
I am honestly...MEH about this. Allow me to explain. I am both angry in the eyeroll sense over the sheer pettiness of it. It's a fucking CIVIL marriage, recognized by the state, not the church. You know, the thing that only cares about services and taxation? And not, you know, if it’s holy before the sight of God?
GET. THE FUCK. OVER IT.
On the other hand...it sort of makes me rebelliously gleeful, in my usual devil’s advocate-y sort of way. "HUZZAH!" says the wicked bit of my soul that is positively allergic to idea of martial commitment*, "What a GREAT IDEA! Let’s make it so NO BODY allowed to get married anymore! Let’s all get equal in the OTHER direction! Who's with me!?”
I donno. This feels like such a wearying case of Your-Doing-It-Wrong-itis. The dude should have just cut his losses and retired. Give unto Caeser, man. Feel free shake your head and sigh regretfully at me and the rest of us damned fools doomed to burn forever in the fires of Hell (….or, roast for near-eternity in Purgatory…just saying. If Oscar Wilde can have a death bed confession/conversion, then hey, there’s still hope) but even Lot turned his back on Sodom and Gomorrah.
(…and then was raped by his two daughters while totally passed out in a drunken stupor.)
(…..Dude, the guy was wasted, how’d he get it UP??)
*I’m really just one of nature’s bachelors. This is becoming more and more startling apparent the older I’m getting.
YE OLDE EDIT:
FORSOOTHE! It appears that this day be Talk Like Shakespeare Day. You Know What That Means!!:
Judge! Thou art a little better thing than earth,
who does not his duty, but only judges
the lesser mortals who to you have come
not for God's Justice, but for what is just.
Sirrah! Of you I shake the dust from my soles,
and save the wedding wine of Cana for another day--
methinks it tastes best shared with lovers and friends,
than with scurrilous scolds and uncharitable nags.
...The Bard, I am Not.
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Date: 2009-04-23 06:53 pm (UTC)(…..Dude, the guy was wasted, how’d he get it UP??)
I have always wondered that.
Nothing quite like reading scripture and suddenly coming upon what looks like the pervy sex fantasy of someone who's been dead for milennia, is there?
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Date: 2009-04-23 07:14 pm (UTC)...I tend to amuse AND vaguely horrify those at my catholic club with my dramatic retellings of Biblical stories. Though, s'not like I'm straying from the original text either, mind. ;)
See mah edit above!
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Date: 2009-04-23 06:58 pm (UTC)You make me smile!
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Date: 2009-04-23 07:12 pm (UTC)(Cause one has to smile, really. The alternative is unacceptable here.)
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Date: 2009-04-23 07:13 pm (UTC)Simply amazing.
You madam, win.
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Date: 2009-04-24 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-24 07:08 pm (UTC)