Finally...

This winter has been a plague on my system. The constant cold and wet has combined with the normal symptoms of my disease to wreak complete havoc and leave me sick and in pain most of the time. On top of that, a strange work schedule and a new daunting semester has combined in making what is already hard, harder. It can be daunting to try to do everything as well as maintain some sanity and the impact of the winter ended up in me having to take more medication (upped dosage of my anti-inflamatory, steroids, and my regular regiment which includes a weekly shot) and working less...doing less. Even with doing that, I feel sick a lot, I hurt a lot and it can get the best of you...leaving you listless and depressed which right now, I am.

On top of that, I have one teacher this semester who is giving me a hard time about missing class, which I honestly cannot help. I have done everything I can...brought doctors excuses, done extra labs, went and extensively explained my situation, and she still wants to give me a hard time so I went to the learning support department and received word today that my letters of accommodation have come in and I can give them to her, basically officially explaining from the school that I have a disease and that I cannot help it.

To me, this is a big deal, because now I do not have to worry if I cannot make it.

Annoyed

It is hard to let someone have an opinion when it feels wrong. I'm stubborn, more stubborn than anyone I know and while I understand everyone is entitled to an opinion, some opinions are just bad.

My school newspaper is called The Macon Statement. It is a small publication, but it gets around the school. The front inside page of the paper is reserved for editorial space and today a Rev. Fuller wrote a piece about homosexuals. While proclaiming that Homosexuals were people too and we need to love the "person" not the "act"... he also said he believed that homosexuals were biologically homosexual and that not all biological tendencies are good and homosexuals should know theirs is wrong and just not do it. He compared homosexuals to pedophiles and those who partake in beastiality and that...deeply offended me. His evidence for how wrong homosexuals was the simplistic "When the bible speaks of homosexual acts, it condemns them." and that was it...

In all truth, you may not like what a person does...but I tell you this, I have a hard time thinking that a person is lost from God just because they love someone of the same gender... to be perfectly honest... I think God has much more important things to worry about than if a man's sexual partner is another man.

I could, poke enormous holes in this guy's article sure enough... like the biological claim... if homosexuality is biological, if a person has a natural tendency to be attracted to the same sex... then if you are a Christian, do you not believe that God made humans, made them completely and if God naturally placed a proclivity for the same sex in some people, is that somehow a mistake on God's part? I don't think so...

Also... comparing someone who wants to have any sort of relations sexual or otherwise with a consenting adult of the same gender to someone who forces themselves sexually on a child or an animal... is just irresponsible, disrespectful, and a blatant attempt to turn someone's life choice into simple depraved degeneration...

I just don't understand why some try so very hard to completely demean someone just because they are different.