I can't believe that people are actually trying to make something like same-sex marriage legal. It's really, REALLY sad. When I hear about it on the radio, or read about it on other blogs, I get really angry inside. Maybe it's just because I am hyper sensitive about this issue, having just gotten married a month ago. I know what marriage means to me, and how important it is. It's disgusting that people could try to make something so blatantly against God's laws LEGAL. Those stupid lawmakers and politicians are going to have some major problems on their hands when they discover that people justified wicked acts because of policies THEY enforced. Mostly, I just feel such deep sadness for the children. What a cruel thing to do - life is hard and confusing enough without completely destroying gender roles.
If you agree with me, and are against same-sex marriage in general, but especially in California, you can go to this website and read more about why to support the proposition to define marriage as between a man and a woman in California this November.
http://www.protectmarriage.com
I got this from their website, and I agree with their points:
Top Ten Talking Points about Same Sex Marriage*
1) Collective Wisdom- All the collective wisdom of human history, not to mention biology, logic and common sense shows us that marriage is designed to be between a man and a woman. For Christians, the Bible is unequivocal on the subject – one man, one woman, for life.
Okay, so I don't believe that the Bible is unequivocal on the subject - think POLYGAMY. However, modern revelation is. And anyway, the law of chastity never included sexual relations between men and men, or women and women.
2) Creating Same Sex Families- When you create a same-sex “marriage” you are also creating a same sex “family,” and so the question now becomes what is in the best interests of children.
In "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" it is made clear that children have the right to be born into a family with a loving mother and father. Same-sex marriage is clearly against that.
3) Social Experiment- Same-sex “marriage” subjects children to a vast untested social experiment.
People who engage in homosexual acts are more promiscuous. We know that promiscuity leads to poverty, wide-spread STD's and infectious diseases, and instability in the home. Not to mention the problem of how frequently people who engage in homosexual acts discuss their sexuality with others. I don't want my children around people like this.
4) Socializing Children- Children need to grow up understanding the proper human relationships between a man and woman, a mother and father, and a husband and wife.
They won't learn this in school. They definitely won't learn this from the media. We are responsible to teach them in the home. Now Satan is trying to take THAT away from them.
5) Dads and Moms Matter- Children need both a mother and a father. The two most loving moms can not be a dad and the two most loving dads can not be a mom and children need both.
Amen.
6) The Research is Clear- The research is crystal clear - children always do better in families with a mother and a father.
We know that children do better with a mother and a father. We know that homosexuality in society causes promiscuity and many other problems, but we don't know how it will affect our children. The inference we can intelligently make, however, is that children, mothers, fathers, and society at large, will all suffer.
7) Loving and Civilized Societies- A loving and civilized society always comes to the aid of fatherless and motherless families. But a loving and civilized society never intentionally creates fatherless and motherless families as a matter of law and public policy.
8) If Marriage Means Anything- If marriage can mean anything then marriage means nothing.
Marriage means everything to me.
9) Relationship Buffet- No society ancient or modern has ever sustained itself with a buffet-like mentality when it comes to marriage and family.
...because marriage and family are the most important things we have on this earth.
10) Slippery Slope- Establishing same-sex “marriage” as a fundamental right will undermine current polygamy laws and create a new legal precedent for “anything goes” forms of marriage.
Five people getting married to each other? A person marrying a dog? It's a mockery of something extremely sacred. I can't stand for that. You shouldn't, either.
* Credit for these talking points goes to John Stemberger, Florida Family Policy Council, which
depends on the outstanding work of Glenn Stanton with Focus on the Family.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Nobody should know exactly how long this took...
At first I thought...houseofchallis
but Danny was kind of meh about that one.
Then I thought challispalace, but it's taken.
Then I thought thechallispalace, but a "the" in a blog name is crappy.
Then I realized I need to change my google account as well. Man, it's kind of difficult having a maiden name change over to a married name. I was always kate.vasicek and now kate.challis is taken. Dang. So I went through a ton of things like:
kchallis
katrinachallis
katrina.challis
katherinechallis
katherine.challis
k.challis
k.chall
kchall
To no avail. Except katrinachallis, but wouldn't it be rude if my name was actually Katrina Challis and somebody named Kate stole it? I think it would be, at least.
So...I finally went with kalzbeta, which is a cross between Katrina and Alzbeta. (The real ancestor's name is Alsbeta, with an "s". More on that later). I made it up several years ago. According to me, it was very clever.
Back to the naming of the blog. houseofchallis was not good, but may darofchallis - dar being the Arabic word for household? Or beitchallis? But that looks too Jewish. And baytchallis looks silly.
Dardechallis - combining Arabic and French?
The cleverest one I came up with was "notredardechallis" - clever because if you pronounce "Challis" the French way, it would rhyme with Paris (paree), so the whole phrase would be a lot like, "Notre Dame de Paris", except "Our Household Of Challis". But darde looks too much like the French word for Turkey, which is dinde. I don't really like that word very much.
So then I remembered a book Danny and I read by Loren Eisley. It's called The Immense Journey - very creative book about the world. Eisley is a naturalist, but also a poet. We didn't read the whole thing, just the last chapter really. It's in the evolution section of the HBL Library at BYU. So then I thought, theimmensejourney - except "the" is problematic, as we have previously discussed.
immensejourney
challisjourney
journeyofchallis
dannyandkatesexcellentadventure (too long)
challisfamily (taken)
challisfamilyadventures
...and finally, challisadventures
I think it works out in the end. It's catchy, and will last a long time. For all of those girls out there looking for tips about what to pick as an email address, you definitely should avoid using your maiden name. Pick your married name (even if you don't know the guy yet), because otherwise somebody will steal it right from under your nose! Grumble grumble kalzbeta is a good email address, except I'm a little worried people will write kalzebeta instead of kalzbeta. Augh over analyzing everything!
but Danny was kind of meh about that one.
Then I thought challispalace, but it's taken.
Then I thought thechallispalace, but a "the" in a blog name is crappy.
Then I realized I need to change my google account as well. Man, it's kind of difficult having a maiden name change over to a married name. I was always kate.vasicek and now kate.challis is taken. Dang. So I went through a ton of things like:
kchallis
katrinachallis
katrina.challis
katherinechallis
katherine.challis
k.challis
k.chall
kchall
To no avail. Except katrinachallis, but wouldn't it be rude if my name was actually Katrina Challis and somebody named Kate stole it? I think it would be, at least.
So...I finally went with kalzbeta, which is a cross between Katrina and Alzbeta. (The real ancestor's name is Alsbeta, with an "s". More on that later). I made it up several years ago. According to me, it was very clever.
Back to the naming of the blog. houseofchallis was not good, but may darofchallis - dar being the Arabic word for household? Or beitchallis? But that looks too Jewish. And baytchallis looks silly.
Dardechallis - combining Arabic and French?
The cleverest one I came up with was "notredardechallis" - clever because if you pronounce "Challis" the French way, it would rhyme with Paris (paree), so the whole phrase would be a lot like, "Notre Dame de Paris", except "Our Household Of Challis". But darde looks too much like the French word for Turkey, which is dinde. I don't really like that word very much.
So then I remembered a book Danny and I read by Loren Eisley. It's called The Immense Journey - very creative book about the world. Eisley is a naturalist, but also a poet. We didn't read the whole thing, just the last chapter really. It's in the evolution section of the HBL Library at BYU. So then I thought, theimmensejourney - except "the" is problematic, as we have previously discussed.
immensejourney
challisjourney
journeyofchallis
dannyandkatesexcellentadventure (too long)
challisfamily (taken)
challisfamilyadventures
...and finally, challisadventures
I think it works out in the end. It's catchy, and will last a long time. For all of those girls out there looking for tips about what to pick as an email address, you definitely should avoid using your maiden name. Pick your married name (even if you don't know the guy yet), because otherwise somebody will steal it right from under your nose! Grumble grumble kalzbeta is a good email address, except I'm a little worried people will write kalzebeta instead of kalzbeta. Augh over analyzing everything!
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