To those of you trolling the “Catholics for Choice” group on Facebook: CUT IT OUT! I’m aware that you feel that they’re raging heretics and hypocrites and you’re entitled to that opinion. I’m not going to argue with you on that one. What I will argue with you on is the efficacy of getting yourselves banned from the group. All you’re doing is giving them ammo to say that pro-life Catholics are intolerant, so cut it out! It’s also really bad manners.
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Big Brother is back on. I don’t have a contestant I dislike thus far as much as I disliked Rachel on the last two iterations but Mike Boogie is starting to be a contender. I’m glad Frank got HOH for this coming week though — it will be interesting to see if he puts Willie up.
My evil twin and hopefully my sister-in-law are coming over for a barbecue on Saturday. If Jeanette (my sister-in-law) is coming, I’ll be needing to find a My Little Pony to put on her birthday cake as well as acquiring some cake mix. I also have to figure out the menu which means figuring out which beast to roast and how I want to roast it.
Going back to #1, I got a call from Planned Parenthood a few weeks ago. It was interesting because I never heard from them during the years when I was sympathetic to them. (I’m not unsympathetic to their practice of providing care to impoverished women — I’m just not in favor of abortion.) I’m guessing that they got my name from the campaign to take down Dan Lungren (my Congresscritter who I loathe because he’s a tool, not because he’s Republican). I don’t know exactly what they were calling about because after the person explained who they were, I politely said, “I should probably tell you that I’m pro-life and I’m not really interested.” I said good-bye and hung up. I’m sure there are some who would argue that I should have tried to debate with them but I had the bear child clamoring for my attention and I had no desire to pick a fight with someone who was probably trying to be nice and volunteer their time for their charity of choice.
Facebook had an interesting Yusef/Cat Stevens question this week. The question was which song you’d want to hear if he ever toured again and sang his secular stuff. It was interesting because a number of my Facebook friends commented who had absolutely no connection to each other. (My answer, by the way, is “Peace Train”.) I still can’t listen to “Moonshadow” with a straight face after the parody someone did on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me after Cat Stevens was taken off a plane in Maine for being on the no-fly list. “I’m being followed by an air marshall/Air marshall/Air marshall…”
I finally had a parishioner ask about 50 Shades of Grey today. She couldn’t understand why I was laughing so hard until I explained about the review that described it as “Twilight with spanking and no sparkly vampires”. What I told her was that she’s an adult and can read whatever she wants but I didn’t think it would benefit her Christian witness. It was at that point that I found out that she had joked about me having it on my NOOK during Bible study that morning. Yeah… not so much. 🙂 I’m generally not into reading whatever is popular with the exception of the Harry Potter books. I didn’t read the Twilight books until they had been out for awhile.
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I remember after I graduated college I was at a job fair and one of the “potential employers” at the job fair was planned parenthood. When I first saw their name on the list I can remember thinking, “they hire people?” b/c I guess in my mind it was all volunteer. At the time I was pro-life but I didn’t really do anything for or against it in terms of outreach I guess you’d say.
Anyway I remember going to the job fair passing the booth from a distance and they had all these weird pictures (I also want to say one of the girls working the booth had tons of tattoos and piercings [or the people in their booth photos]) and I didn’t even go up to them. I remember after I left thinking maybe I should have evangelized and talked to them but I was too chicken to get into a debate at a job fair.
i think there’s a time and place for evangelism of that nature and the job fair wasn’t one of them. 🙂 the last thing you want to do at a job fair is get into a fight with one of the places hiring.
I love love love peace train!
I admit, I gave up on the Twilight books after like 20 pages. There are some really good LDS fantasy/Sci fi writers, like Orson Scott Card, and I just didn’t want to ruin my impression of them with Sister Meyer’s book. I, however, read and enjoyed her book The Host. It was rather interesting and much better written than Twilight.
One of my young men is reading 50 Shades of Grey. I haven’t seen him make as many faces over a book since he lost a bet and had to read Breaking Dawn.
One of my young men is reading 50 Shades of Grey. I haven??t seen him make as many faces over a book since he lost a bet and had to read Breaking Dawn.
i totally love it!
What sort of faces….? 🙂 I’m hoping grossed out ones!
#5 – Sounds like the right response to me.