Busy day

So I've been spending the day doing laundry, going grocery shopping, and now writing a blog while trying to contain my incalculable and vehement rage at something that I discovered and watched, although as much as I'm wanting to comment on it, I may only mention it and not refute it.  We'll see how things go as I write this.

Well I finally started working 40 hours a week, so here's hoping that things go well enough and I keep my sanity.  Speaking of sanity, I've discovered (or rediscovered) something that it helping me maintain my sanity.  Allow me to introduce Dorothy Parker to this blog.  I finally found a copy of both her complete stories and complete poems.  In reading her stories, I've found that not only is she a window into a completely different era (she wrote during the 1920s and 1930s), she also found stories and satire in everyday people doing everyday things.  I guess as I'm reading her snarky tales I'm comforted by a couple things.  1) Even ordinary people going about their lives can make interesting stories, primarily if you make it as sarcastic sounding as Dorothy.  It makes my average life seem not so bad, because that's what everyone elses' life is.  2) Not much has changed in our culture as far as I can see. 

So, let's see.  Gaga while doing her Gagavision episodes confronts a protester who claims that she is going to Hell.  You can read about it and see the video here.  And while I'm not in favor of confronting people who protest things with their religious convictions to drive them while they're out in public, I will do so if they really really irk me.  But I will always attempt to do so with a mindset of spirited debate, rather then being a jerk.  So, I guess I'm saying that I don't really agree with how she did it, but I agree with her message that hate and expressing that hate isn't a good thing.

Alright, so speaking of hate, *that group* has created a video as a spoof version of the no H8 campaign about the California gay marriage debate.  The whole video is about who God hates, and about dispelling some "misconceptions" about the Bible.  And I have more than a few issues with this.

The primary one being that God hates.  First of all, the person appearing in the segment to refute the idea that God actually does hate states that the OT is filled with intstances of God's wrath, anger, judgment, and hate.  Firstly, wrath, anger, and judgment are not the same as hate.  Keep in mind, God is supposed to be a Heavenly Father.  Using a parental analogy, God can get angry, even wrathful, and pass judgment on humans without hating any of them.  Sending unrepentant sinners to hell is the (in a really bad analogy) eternal version of grounding a child to their bedroom.  If God did hate anyone/anything that was/is his prerogative, but not our example. 

Next they address the issue that being gay is equal to eating shellfish, which is an argument presented to refute the use of OT passages to condemn homosexuality.  In refuting this argument they make note of the fact that God/Jesus appeared to Peter and told him that everything was ok to eat.  Therefore we can infer that the NT overrules the OT in certain instances.  Ergo, the whole OT business regarding sexual purity could be considered to be overruled due to the New Covenant of the NT.

Ok, and that's enough of that.  I can't even finish the video.  It's too painful.  I can't believe that there are people that would twist Christianity so much that it's not even the same religion.  I mean it looks, smells, sounds the same, but it's not.  For future reference, when I speak of Christianity, I'm not speaking of any sort of Christian fundamentalists, notably *that group*.

Now, shifting gears a little bit, apparently a teacher in San Diego was fired for posting an ad on Craigslist for sex.  Read the advocate story and the LA times story.  Mutual adult consenting sex.  With another man.  And he was fired.  Now, how is it that someone can be fired from a position based on what they do in their private life?  They shouldn't, plain and simple.  The argument that he violated a moral conduct code isn't valid because the (im)moral behavior of the code is purely subjective based on those who came up with it, so anything that they don't like would be considered immoral and therefore a terminable offense.  Not fair, and it should be illegal. 

Now I'm depressed and pissed, and I think I need to go play a video game or read some Dorothy Parker to get out of my funky mood.  To quote Dorothy's stories "Here's mud in your eye!"