Internal collision....

Where all parts of me collide….

So here I go again, it’s a Tuesday Morning and I am having my morning cigarette watching Zoey take a dump in the back yard! I do what I do every morning, check emails, play words, and check Facebook. The mundane routine of my morning, at a quick glance before I deleted it….another email from Brad Clark…delete….WAIT, WHAT?! The preview caught my attention. Catholic Charaties threatens to pull funding if civil unions pass?!
This is where all of my parts collide…..I AM a catholic, I AM a lesbian, and I AM a social worker who utilizes services by Catholic Charities! So fuck me running if I think its wrong on all levels to make statements that they will pull funding from families if this passes. Lets do a quick fact check, shall we?! In Colorado BEFORE we place children we look (or are supposed to) at things like culture, belief and ethnicity. Those things are taken into account, BUT What is most important is love! Taking a child out of a traumatic environment and trying to put them in a loving environment! THAT’S what is important! Maybe I am naïve BUT if I were an abused or neglected child, I wouldn’t give two shits if I had two foster dads as long as 1. They didn’t hit me like my parents did! 2. They fed me like my parents failed to do and/or 3. They didn’t sexually abuse me like (insert perp here) did! Have we really lost that much focus?! Have we lost the core part of our values that as a religion we make statements and threaten our most vulnerable citizens?!

I struggle with this internal chaos happening right now. I am proud to call myself a catholic, because it meant so much to my grandma, and it has shaped the core of who I am. I am proud of who I am, because it took me forever to get here, and I am fucking raging that we would pull funding for services because of the clash or “beliefs.”

I have said it before and I will say it again….the bible is not a fucking weapon! The bible does not give you an excuse or justification for your bigotry! I read the bible, I have completed ALL of my sacraments (up to this point I’m missing marriage and death), and what I gathered from that LIFETIME of learning, was love, the bible says we LOVE one another! I get the whole “the bible says…” shit, but the bible says some other weird shit too, so you cant pick and choose which parts suit you for the moment! That’s my rant and rave for the moment…..Happy Tuesday friends!

PS if you think this is as fucked up as i do, sign the petition
http://equalityfederation.salsalabs.com/o/35061/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=859