A Pope for all...

I am not a Catholic, nor do I wish to become one.  With that being said, I am impressed with Pope Francis.  Of all the Pontiffs that I have heard before, he is the most humane, likeable, and believable.  I appreciate his positions on current events and how he is handling old ones.  He brings a calm, quiet, voice to an otherwise loud world and makes people listen.  He is bringing energy back to the church and outside of the church with his viewpoints. 

My favorite is his forgiveness for women that have had abortions.  Mistakes are made and he is allowing them to come back in. 

I believe that he will be remembered as one of the best.

What is she thinking??

I know that this can be a controversial blog, but here is my opinion.

Kim Davis’s name has certainly made it to the national level.  It is interesting to type into the search bar “Kentucky license clerk” and a story about her is the first hit.

I agree with George Takei.  If any of you follow him, he has made a few good points about the constitution and his own personal take on the situation.

If Ms. Davis did not want to issue licenses to gay couples, she should have tendered her resignation when gay marriage became law.  I believe that her job description details issuing lawful licenses to qualified applicants.  Her job is to withhold her censure and apply the law to issuing the license.  That is it.

As Mr. Takei points out, if she declined to issue a license to an interracial couple, the media would have hung her out to dry for denying someone their legal rights, yet interracial marriage was against the law just a few decades ago.

You cannot pick and choose which law you are going to follow.  I you are going to cite your religion, perhaps you should be ready to be judged against all rules of the religion that you are following.  Such as not divorcing and intercourse.  She has been married 4 times and has two children out of wedlock.  She seems to apply the rules to her benefit only as proven below.

From Snopes.com

In federal court, Davis testified that her objection to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples was not based on any sin she thinks the couple might commit. She said it was based on the Biblical definition of marriage as “a union between one man and one woman.”

That’s different from giving licenses to people who have been divorced, she said. The Bible prohibits divorce in most cases, but Davis said, “That’s between them and God."

Read more at http://m.snopes.com/kim-davis-married-four-times/#BvpvBLSAXg2em9ge.99

I have a message for Ms. Davis.  Judge not lest you be judged.  I know that I live in a glass house and try really hard not to throw bricks.  I don’t think she realizes that she does too. 

14 years have flown by.  It snuck on me yesterday and I was surprised.  I think that a lot of people have forgotten...
Then I look on Facebook and am immediately overwhelmed by the pictures and videos.  I don't know anyone affected personally by the attacks but I did pause and reflect on what I was doing that day.

It would be nice if the country could come together again as they did then.  We are so divided now.

If you read this, leave a note on where you were that day...

Why I always wear Ohio State stuff...

As people meet me, they will invariably notice that I always have some form of Ohio State gear on my person.  It is just something that I do.  I cannot be back home, so I carry home with me.  Whether it is a buckeye in my pocket or a bumper sticker on my car that states, “ my two favorite teams are Ohio State and whoever is playing Michigan”.  ha ha.
I love my state and am proud to be from Ohio even if I did not have the pleasure of attending the school.  I tried to get my daughter to go and she declined.  She told me that she would never attend class because she got lost on the school tour.... pity that, but at least she learned the O-H-I-O arm movements...
My son finally figured out why I have so many OSU T shirts.  When we went home last November, it was the weekend of the Ohio-Michigan game.  If you went out in pubic, it was a sea of red and gray.  Every grocery store had Ohio State displays and anti Michigan displays.  There is no other state that I know of that has such a strong support for their school as Ohio.  I tend to miss my state in the fall most.
My consolation is that there are four buckeye trees in the O’Fallon city park.  I gather buckeyes to take to my job.  I noticed that a lot of patients carried buckeyes in their pockets.  I take them so that more patients can have them although I had one individual that didn’t want “no damn Ohio buckeye” so I had to assure him that they were real Illinois buckeyes... that was fun.  Then he found out that I was from Ohio and it got interesting.  We ended up agreeing that at least neither of us was from Michigan.     lol!!!!!!