I read a meme circulating throughout social media. I will address it from this neck of the woods. And from all I have witnessed. The meme references several issues fundamentalists' say they believe. Pro Military; Pro Law enforcement; Pro 2nd amendment; Pro Accountability; Pro Voter ID; Pro Life; Pro Ice; Pro trump; Pro Charlie Kirk. AND, of corse to follow suit, whoever created the meme had to throw in the fact there are only two genders.
My god, where to begin...
Breathe.
I am also Pro Law Enforcement. which means I was devastated to witness police officers' heads being smashed in the doors of the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. I was devastated to learn officers had died, and some died by suicide from the horrors that occurred that day. I am Pro 2nd amendment. I own guns, and believe it is important to respect and know how to use a gun. I believe in the best oversight possible to keep guns from the hands of those who have no respect for human life. Military war machines were not intended for use by common citizens. SCHOOL CHILDREN mean the world to me. And they should never have to live in fear of going to school because someone armed with a gun that is capable of shooting up whole classsrooms of kids and teachers within minutes may come. I am very much Pro Accountability. I am Pro Voter ID, and of the many decades I have voted, I've shown my ID. Was happy to do so. I am Pro Life, which includes the lives of children already born and learning about being here, and includes the lives of young women who were assaulted and traumatized from having been raped. Pro Choice is ALL about LIFE. I know nothing about what another woman may have been through, or may be going through. I've quite enough to do in managing my own life. I hope and pray for women who struggle. My Pro Life beliefs also include those women who were dying, and eventually did die when they were sent home from hospitals who refused to help them in distress. Babies lost too.
Whew...
Breathe.
Charlie Kirk was a podcast personality. I never even knew he existed until he died that awful day. Ater he died, I listened to some of his speeches. Then, I knew him. The vile, bigoted and narcissistic words he spoke were frightening to me. And, I'm sorry he decided to make millions of dollars through utilizing and instigating hate.
ICE....whew. Pro Life, you say? Nah, I don't believe you. Mothers and fathers being placed in chains to be sent back to countries where some never lived because they were born in the United States, and worked here. Children ripped from the arms of parents or parent figures and taken to strange places throughout the country never to see their parents again. Sick babies dying with no milk from their natural mothers. Innocent people, unarmed doctors and other professionals shot dead in the streets of our cities. People who had contributed to American society. Nah...you're not Pro Life.
Ah, gender!! There ARE two biological genders, save for those born with male and female genitalia (known as intersexed). Homosexuality has existed since before any of us were born. People of the Bible belt might be surprised to learn about the history of King James of England; the very King James who fell in love with the most poetic version of Christian biblical scriptures that he stamped his approval of them by his own name. Beyond this, there is much learning to be done, and many questions not one of us can answer. In the same way, not one of us can answer for an absolute fact which interpretations, as there are many, of Christian biblical scriptures "should be" followed. But there is this one word which encompasses every lesson given of scriptures. This one word of focus is touched upon in every story and every parable written within. At the end of any day, us humans struggle with it. Because as the words of Joni's song so eloquently puts it, we really don't know love at all...
Got the Golden Rule? I'm not so sure....
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