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Hi.
After my post on Saturday, I've calmed down a lot. Your kind words and hugs (*returns those and gives them out, by the way, in case anyone wants some*) really made me realize that I am not alone in this issue, and that there are some things you just have to keep fighting for the rest of your life. More than that, you guys showed me that it's worth trying to fight, so thank you so much for that. You are all so supportive, without my having done anything to deserve it.
But anyway.
Finals are this week, and I am worried about how they are going to go. I am not worried about my French or Health finals, because I'm pretty sure I've got those all "locked up," so to speak. It's more the skit half of my English final and my Algebra final that I'm worried about.
In English, we're not going to be judged on our ability to act out the scene from Romeo and Juliet, but we are going to be judged on our preparedness. So I have to memorize forty-one lines of Romeo's speech with Benvolio. That shouldn't be too hard, but I'm still worried. Bah, I just have to remember to calm down and kick my shyness all the way to Timbuktu.
Algebra is the one final I'm really worried about. I forgot quite a bit of the things we learned at the beginning of the semester, so on either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm probably going to spend the entire afternoon studying so that I don't entirely fail. And hey, at least we'll have notecards, so I can put the things I might forget on those. (This is definitely where my teeny tiny handwriting comes in handy.)
So, finals. Might be difficult, might not be. I just really, really, really don't want this semester to end, because then, the second semester starts and I will have gym every single day. BAH.
Lessee.
Oh, I was responding to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
technophile's post, about controversial opinions and, on the subject of gay marriage, I wrote the following:
I think marriage as it stands now should be abolished and remade, into two different... strands, or something like that. I think there should be legal marriage, where anyone who wants to enter into a 'civil union' and get the marriage rights as they stand now should be able to get them, whether they are heterosexual, homosexual, or anything in between.
And then there should be "religious" marriages where, if people wish to be recognized as married in the eyes of God, in a church or something like that, they can be. There's no rights involved in this, it's more a personal decision -- and churches reserve the right to marry anyone they like. So if they're a Baptist church, they can choose to "marry" only heterosexual couples, and if they're liberal, they can marry anyone they want. Kinda hard to explain, I know, but basically, anyone who gets a legal marriage gets all the rights available to married couples now, and everyone who gets a religious marriage chooses to do so not to get rights, but to... show love and... honor God or... yeah. Hopefully this is understandable...
Sure, those thoughts merit some fleshing out, but I really do think it's a way to solve the whole problem between gay marriage activists vs. opponents whilst still separating church and state. And "legal marriages" would be sort of like civil unions, except everyone has to get them. So, instead of heterosexuals getting marriages and homosexuals getting civil unions, we all get civil unions. And then that brings in the personal choice of whether they wish to get married in a church, in the "religious" sense.
Might write bigger post on this later... if anyone's interested. And if I can stop procrastinating.
After my post on Saturday, I've calmed down a lot. Your kind words and hugs (*returns those and gives them out, by the way, in case anyone wants some*) really made me realize that I am not alone in this issue, and that there are some things you just have to keep fighting for the rest of your life. More than that, you guys showed me that it's worth trying to fight, so thank you so much for that. You are all so supportive, without my having done anything to deserve it.
But anyway.
Finals are this week, and I am worried about how they are going to go. I am not worried about my French or Health finals, because I'm pretty sure I've got those all "locked up," so to speak. It's more the skit half of my English final and my Algebra final that I'm worried about.
In English, we're not going to be judged on our ability to act out the scene from Romeo and Juliet, but we are going to be judged on our preparedness. So I have to memorize forty-one lines of Romeo's speech with Benvolio. That shouldn't be too hard, but I'm still worried. Bah, I just have to remember to calm down and kick my shyness all the way to Timbuktu.
Algebra is the one final I'm really worried about. I forgot quite a bit of the things we learned at the beginning of the semester, so on either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm probably going to spend the entire afternoon studying so that I don't entirely fail. And hey, at least we'll have notecards, so I can put the things I might forget on those. (This is definitely where my teeny tiny handwriting comes in handy.)
So, finals. Might be difficult, might not be. I just really, really, really don't want this semester to end, because then, the second semester starts and I will have gym every single day. BAH.
Lessee.
Oh, I was responding to
technophile's post, about controversial opinions and, on the subject of gay marriage, I wrote the following:I think marriage as it stands now should be abolished and remade, into two different... strands, or something like that. I think there should be legal marriage, where anyone who wants to enter into a 'civil union' and get the marriage rights as they stand now should be able to get them, whether they are heterosexual, homosexual, or anything in between.
And then there should be "religious" marriages where, if people wish to be recognized as married in the eyes of God, in a church or something like that, they can be. There's no rights involved in this, it's more a personal decision -- and churches reserve the right to marry anyone they like. So if they're a Baptist church, they can choose to "marry" only heterosexual couples, and if they're liberal, they can marry anyone they want. Kinda hard to explain, I know, but basically, anyone who gets a legal marriage gets all the rights available to married couples now, and everyone who gets a religious marriage chooses to do so not to get rights, but to... show love and... honor God or... yeah. Hopefully this is understandable...
Sure, those thoughts merit some fleshing out, but I really do think it's a way to solve the whole problem between gay marriage activists vs. opponents whilst still separating church and state. And "legal marriages" would be sort of like civil unions, except everyone has to get them. So, instead of heterosexuals getting marriages and homosexuals getting civil unions, we all get civil unions. And then that brings in the personal choice of whether they wish to get married in a church, in the "religious" sense.
Might write bigger post on this later... if anyone's interested. And if I can stop procrastinating.
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Date: 2009-01-20 12:42 am (UTC)From:Only quibble I have with your statement is you're making it sound as though there will no longer be such an entity as legal marriage, only legal civil unions possibly accompanied by religious marriage. I think it should be, anybody who wants to call themselves married is free to do so after whatever ceremony suits their needs or no ceremony at all, so religious marriage remains exactly as it is now in that only the church authorities have the right to say which marriages are and are not recognized by that church and why, but they only get to call themselves legally married if they've gone to see the justice of the peace.
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Date: 2009-01-20 02:41 am (UTC)From: