(Written by, Angela Kaye Mason)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/22/hate.crimes/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#close=1
That's a wild one for ya. They are going to pass a bill so that anyone who attacks a person just because of their sexual orientation will face federal charges. ''The bill is named for Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teenager who died after being kidnapped and severely beaten in October 1998, and James Byrd Jr., an African-American man dragged to death in Texas the same year.''Apparently Bush vetoed this idea, and OBama is expected to sign it into law.
Now, before you think I am a prejudice, non-caring, hardhearted holier-than-thou,hear me out. I do NOT agree with attacking anyone, for ANY reason. I do not care what color, sexual preference, religion, whatever, you may be, NO ONE deserves to be assaulted. Remember....they wanted to stone the woman for adultery, in the Bible. She was brought before Jesus. He refused to sign that particular bill into law, so to speak. He said''Those without sin, cast the first stone.'' I am NOT without sin. Neither are you. So, no stones should be flying...period.
Here is my issue with this bill.Why should only attacks due to you being gay, or your race, or religion, or whatever be included in this? Should it not be a federal offense to EVER assault ANYONE? I have been in an abusive relationship before. Trust me, it was a hate crime. So how will it be determined what is hate crime and what is not?
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Daddy! Help! We Broke It!
(Written by, Angela Kaye Mason)
We were given an awesome gift. It was beautiful, exactly what we wanted. Everything we needed, we got out of this gift with a little effort on our part. It was shiny and new, a little raw and needed work, but it was clean, and fresh, and ours. With love and care this gift was wonderful for all. Everyone was invited to share it, and if everyone who used it had maintained it, it would truly be awesome by now. But we broke it. Drug it through the dirt, filled it full of trash, did not maintain it, and we broke it.
At first it was just broken into a few big pieces. Would have been simple for a Father to fix, but we tried to fix it ourselves instead. We were going through that independent ''I do it myself'' stage that 3 and 4 year olds are famous for. Instead, we keep shattering each piece more and more, and STILL we refuse to let our Daddy step in and make it new again.
''What is she talking about?'' you may ask. America. This gift was our freedom, in an awesome nation which I love with everything in me. I feel very lucky to have been born here, to this freedom. It is a GOD-given right, which He chose to give us long before this land was ever discovered. He gave us free-will upon creation, and we Americans have used this gift more than any other.
How did we break it? Well..picture this: Our ancestors, whether people like it or not, founded this country on GOD. They went through a LOT, left their homes, took their families, children, and boarded a ship to travel for months in horrible conditions to go to a place they had never seen Why? So that they could worship GOD. They wanted freedom of religion. The ''separation of church and state'' was never meant to be used to push God out of schools, government buildings, etc. I mean...for goodness sakes, back AFTER it was written the school and churches were IN THE SAME BUILDING! This ''separation'' law was written so that the government could no longer FORCE us to worship in THEIR way. It was written to protect us from government interference. And yes, I believe this law is for everyone, not just any one religion. I think that if you want to bow down every day and worship Mickey Mouse, and when it is prayer time in school, you wish to pray to Mickey Mouse, then that is your right, because, as I said, God gave us free will. It is not the government's place to take the free will God gave us.
And this was just the beginning of the breaking of our gift. As I said, we had to try to fix it ourselves, instead of letting our very capable Daddy renew it. Look back a few years shall we? Its the 1950's. Mama stays home, cares for the kids,cooks, cleans, pretty much has it made. Daddy goes to work, handles the discipline, pays the bills, HEADS THE HOUSE! Now..I know a few women will hate me for this , but here we go. They just HAD to fight for equal rights. Forgetting what the Bible said, forgetting that God put man as the head of the house , not to degrade us, but so that we could be in our natural, caring, nurturing role in a safe, protected environment. They had to try to improve it. So they fought, and they won. We, as women , had it made, but it wasn't good enough. Now, with the economy crashing, more women are working than men. More kids are in jail, on drugs, in gangs. Children are growing up with a confused sense of gender-roles and believing they were ''born gay''. More abortions are taking place, sometimes simply because a woman doesn't want a child to interrupt her career. Others are because of immorality, whether by promiscuous actions, rape, etc. The Catholic church has just decided to accept homosexuality in the church and approve of same sex marriage.
So we now have reversed gender roles, abortions, gangs taking over cities, children killing children, crushed economy, government trying to cost people more money while everyone is losing their jobs, immorality is not just accepted, it is now welcome in our churches, and even in small town America, it is not safe to walk down the street. It is broken, and we can't fix it. Daddy can...but we won't let Him, because we must be ''free''to say
''I do it myself.''
We were given an awesome gift. It was beautiful, exactly what we wanted. Everything we needed, we got out of this gift with a little effort on our part. It was shiny and new, a little raw and needed work, but it was clean, and fresh, and ours. With love and care this gift was wonderful for all. Everyone was invited to share it, and if everyone who used it had maintained it, it would truly be awesome by now. But we broke it. Drug it through the dirt, filled it full of trash, did not maintain it, and we broke it.
At first it was just broken into a few big pieces. Would have been simple for a Father to fix, but we tried to fix it ourselves instead. We were going through that independent ''I do it myself'' stage that 3 and 4 year olds are famous for. Instead, we keep shattering each piece more and more, and STILL we refuse to let our Daddy step in and make it new again.
''What is she talking about?'' you may ask. America. This gift was our freedom, in an awesome nation which I love with everything in me. I feel very lucky to have been born here, to this freedom. It is a GOD-given right, which He chose to give us long before this land was ever discovered. He gave us free-will upon creation, and we Americans have used this gift more than any other.
How did we break it? Well..picture this: Our ancestors, whether people like it or not, founded this country on GOD. They went through a LOT, left their homes, took their families, children, and boarded a ship to travel for months in horrible conditions to go to a place they had never seen Why? So that they could worship GOD. They wanted freedom of religion. The ''separation of church and state'' was never meant to be used to push God out of schools, government buildings, etc. I mean...for goodness sakes, back AFTER it was written the school and churches were IN THE SAME BUILDING! This ''separation'' law was written so that the government could no longer FORCE us to worship in THEIR way. It was written to protect us from government interference. And yes, I believe this law is for everyone, not just any one religion. I think that if you want to bow down every day and worship Mickey Mouse, and when it is prayer time in school, you wish to pray to Mickey Mouse, then that is your right, because, as I said, God gave us free will. It is not the government's place to take the free will God gave us.
And this was just the beginning of the breaking of our gift. As I said, we had to try to fix it ourselves, instead of letting our very capable Daddy renew it. Look back a few years shall we? Its the 1950's. Mama stays home, cares for the kids,cooks, cleans, pretty much has it made. Daddy goes to work, handles the discipline, pays the bills, HEADS THE HOUSE! Now..I know a few women will hate me for this , but here we go. They just HAD to fight for equal rights. Forgetting what the Bible said, forgetting that God put man as the head of the house , not to degrade us, but so that we could be in our natural, caring, nurturing role in a safe, protected environment. They had to try to improve it. So they fought, and they won. We, as women , had it made, but it wasn't good enough. Now, with the economy crashing, more women are working than men. More kids are in jail, on drugs, in gangs. Children are growing up with a confused sense of gender-roles and believing they were ''born gay''. More abortions are taking place, sometimes simply because a woman doesn't want a child to interrupt her career. Others are because of immorality, whether by promiscuous actions, rape, etc. The Catholic church has just decided to accept homosexuality in the church and approve of same sex marriage.
So we now have reversed gender roles, abortions, gangs taking over cities, children killing children, crushed economy, government trying to cost people more money while everyone is losing their jobs, immorality is not just accepted, it is now welcome in our churches, and even in small town America, it is not safe to walk down the street. It is broken, and we can't fix it. Daddy can...but we won't let Him, because we must be ''free''to say
''I do it myself.''
Monday, October 19, 2009
Health Care?
(Written by, Angela Kaye Mason)
I can't pretend to know very much about this new Health Care Reform thingy the president is pushing so hard. I mean , after all, from what I understand it is many many pages long and not even all the people who are voting on it have probably read and understand it all. When it was first introduced, I thought it was supposed to help those of us who cannot afford health care to get it. Of course I was already skeptical. The country is falling apart, the economy is broke...and can't get fixed. Social Security, Welfare, etc, is already in crisis. How could we possibly add any more help to the poor?
I have friends who were all for it, and from their point of view I guess I understand. They wanted to lower the costs of the Health care they are already paying for. They wanted the Government to step in and force Insurance Companies to give customers what they are paying for, instead of refusing treatment to people who have had their policies for years, and missed the fine print, or didnt understand the ''clauses'' the company used to get out of the help the customers were due. It all sounds pretty good...just the little bit I am able to address in the blog.
Here is my issue with it all. I saw in a newscast last week, that the reform that is going through now, says that every American will have to have Health Insurance the same way we have to have car insurance. That to NOT have it will cost the citizen ''small penalties'' or fines just like the tickets we get for driving without insurance. The reporter, who I actually like, but did not agree with on this one, even stated that he felt it would not work because the ''young'' people would just decide to pay the penalties and not get insurance, thus leaving the older more responsible people to foot the bill, and Healthcare costs would just rise even more.
All of the opinions are forgetting one important detail. Some of us are not CHOOSING to not have insurance now. We don't NEED the government of this ''free'' country to force us to have insurance. If we could afford it, we would already have it. In 2000 I was diagnosed with lyme disease. I also don't produce enough blood so I am almost always anemic. My normal blood pressure after activities is 90/60. I have had to have blood transfusions, and cannot afford the treatment I need now. Trust me, if I could afford healthcare., I'd have it. no one would have to force it on me.And they are saying that this reform would make it more affordable. I actually laughed out loud at this one, because, as I said , it shows that they have NO idea what it's like for the real people out here.There are people I know personally who cannot afford to feed their family...literally. We can't afford to go to doctors, and we don't. They want to make us have insurance that we won't use because we will never go to the doctor unless it is life threatening. That is how we live. We can't afford it..period. I don't have enough to pay my bills now...so even if they could make it only 5 bucks a week....which they won't...I don't have it. And what happens to those who can't afford the ''small fee''? Do we go to jail? Get probation? Owe the courts/government even more? Brilliant idea for decreasing the deficit by getting money from poor people. Terrible idea for helping poor people have healthcare.
I can't pretend to know very much about this new Health Care Reform thingy the president is pushing so hard. I mean , after all, from what I understand it is many many pages long and not even all the people who are voting on it have probably read and understand it all. When it was first introduced, I thought it was supposed to help those of us who cannot afford health care to get it. Of course I was already skeptical. The country is falling apart, the economy is broke...and can't get fixed. Social Security, Welfare, etc, is already in crisis. How could we possibly add any more help to the poor?
I have friends who were all for it, and from their point of view I guess I understand. They wanted to lower the costs of the Health care they are already paying for. They wanted the Government to step in and force Insurance Companies to give customers what they are paying for, instead of refusing treatment to people who have had their policies for years, and missed the fine print, or didnt understand the ''clauses'' the company used to get out of the help the customers were due. It all sounds pretty good...just the little bit I am able to address in the blog.
Here is my issue with it all. I saw in a newscast last week, that the reform that is going through now, says that every American will have to have Health Insurance the same way we have to have car insurance. That to NOT have it will cost the citizen ''small penalties'' or fines just like the tickets we get for driving without insurance. The reporter, who I actually like, but did not agree with on this one, even stated that he felt it would not work because the ''young'' people would just decide to pay the penalties and not get insurance, thus leaving the older more responsible people to foot the bill, and Healthcare costs would just rise even more.
All of the opinions are forgetting one important detail. Some of us are not CHOOSING to not have insurance now. We don't NEED the government of this ''free'' country to force us to have insurance. If we could afford it, we would already have it. In 2000 I was diagnosed with lyme disease. I also don't produce enough blood so I am almost always anemic. My normal blood pressure after activities is 90/60. I have had to have blood transfusions, and cannot afford the treatment I need now. Trust me, if I could afford healthcare., I'd have it. no one would have to force it on me.And they are saying that this reform would make it more affordable. I actually laughed out loud at this one, because, as I said , it shows that they have NO idea what it's like for the real people out here.There are people I know personally who cannot afford to feed their family...literally. We can't afford to go to doctors, and we don't. They want to make us have insurance that we won't use because we will never go to the doctor unless it is life threatening. That is how we live. We can't afford it..period. I don't have enough to pay my bills now...so even if they could make it only 5 bucks a week....which they won't...I don't have it. And what happens to those who can't afford the ''small fee''? Do we go to jail? Get probation? Owe the courts/government even more? Brilliant idea for decreasing the deficit by getting money from poor people. Terrible idea for helping poor people have healthcare.
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