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Every Friday we’ll take a break from topical posts and will post some random personal thoughts.
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A Cuppa Joe – Random Ramblings from a Fellow Struggler
Prince Charles has acknowledged his family ties to Count Dracula, who was in fact a 15th century nobleman known as Vlad the Impaler of Transylvania. Apparently Transylvania’s forests are endangered due to logging and other developments, so the Prince has stepped forward with this revelation because (I’m quoting Charles verbatim, honestly) “I do have a bit of a stake in the country.”
You can make up your own punch-line. I made up a barrel full of my own but Renee won’t let me post them.
In other colorful family relations type stories, Lindsay Lohan’s father Michael was arrested this week while fleeing the police. Though it was initially assumed his parenting skills had elicited an arrest warrant, he had in fact been taken into custody earlier in the week on a domestic abuse charge filed by his girlfriend, who he then contacted after his release, which was a violation of his release terms. When approached by officers Lohan jumped off a third floor balcony to escape, and was then apprehended and booked. This just in: Lindsey’s looking normal.
But the definition of normal is surely up for grabs these days. 7-year old Bobby Montoya of Denver has joined the Girl Scouts. The boy’s mother initially complained when the local troop leader objected to a male joining the female scouts, prompting the chapter to accept the boy for membership. The Vice-President of Communications for the Girl Scouts then noted that the organization is “inclusive,” stating:
“If a child lives life as a girl and the family brings the child to us to participate in Girl Scouts, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her. We do not require proof of gender, we respect the decisions of families.”
One wonders if they also respect the inevitable objections of other families to having their girls camp with a male. Buckle up for a tidal wave of such cases.
Speaking of which, I object hugely to the trend of blurring genders, considering the male/female contrast was a crowing point of Creation (Genesis 2:18) making me no supporter of transsexualism or sex change surgery. I also object hugely to needless sarcasm directed towards transsexual people, and though my family and I have forgone watching Dancing with the Stars this season, I see Chaz Bono was voted off the show Wednesday after enduring comments from one of the judges who compared Chaz to a “cute penguin flapping”, a “basketball” and “an Ewok.” Ah, come on. What possible need was there for jabs like that? There are numerous abominations condemned in scripture, including pride, wicked imaginations and dividing people (Proverbs 6:16-19). I hope we abhor all sin, sexual or non-sexual.
I also hope we’ll emulate the noble Bereans mentioned in Acts 17:11, who checked things out for themselves rather than simply take someone’s word for it. An article this week in World Net Daily (a source I appreciate and respect) states that feeding your children soy can cause them to become homosexual. Being neither a chemist nor a medical doctor, I claim no expertise in this, but common sense tells me that while soy may increase estrogen levels (which is hardly news) there’s a pretty wide gap between estrogen and sexual orientation. The article gave little by way of documentation, so its conclusions are hard to verify. Maybe more will be determined, but for now, let’s not swallow theories of origin regarding homosexuality too quickly. Inborn? Acquired? We still don’t know. What we do know, though incomplete, is pretty sufficient – we’re born with a sin nature, which manifests itself in countless ways, making us all excellent candidates for redemption. ‘Nuff said?
‘Nuff said is what Harold Camping said, in so many words, when asked about his most recent prediction that the rapture would occur last Friday. (Mentioned also in last Friday’s post). After three strikes (or up to five, according to some sources) during which he named dates for raptures that never showed, he made his finest, most accurate public statement in recent memory: “I have no answers.”
Much better. Please, Mr. Camping, leave it at that.
Hope your weekend is joyful and blessed. Thanks for being here.
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Gale Bala | Nov 10, 2011
I chose not to watch Dancing With the Stars this season also.You are aware that those offensive judge's remarks came from the openly gay judge, right? Although they were not comments on Chaz Bono's sexual nature, I thought Bruno's comments were very hurtful when I heard about them and I was surprised that he would be the one making them. The case of the seven-year-old boy who has joined the girl scouts is sad and infuriating to me all at the same time.We all know the statistics of boys who are ambiguous about their orientation or gender and who, if given time, will in the vast majority of cases come to realize that their assigned gender at birth was not a mistake and their sexual orientation is heterosexual.The mother of that child is doing her boy a grave in justice and the girl scouts has become something of a morally corrupt institution imho.
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