Things sometimes don't go as planned in deciding when to not feel/be
sick. Wednesday I finally left my bed of misery, after retching, for
what seemed a century! got showered. came back here (yes, office still
messy) and was hit by all the Supreme Court rulings!! That was enough
to make me sick again!!!
I've been to a couple of wonderful Church meetings lately and words have been used, such as, The Lord's work is hastening. After
the Sunday Night special Missionary Fireside and to hear there are
70,000 missionaries, and most are young people, I just felt like it was
this beautiful flood of goodness just pouring over the earth. Sharing
truth and literally scattering sunshine with teachings of the Gospel and
the light of the Savior.
At the same time, battle prep,
is being made by the adversary....denied a family of his own it makes
sense he would want to break up current and future families.
It's all moving so fast!!! Unreal!
The
short time period, of 17 years, for something so monumental. Something
so basic. Something our country is based on. something all of mankind
is based on and to see that shredding and people trying to convince
believers that it won't effect you etc. etc. Yes. Yes, it will impact
all of us. Especially for Christians. Already Christians are fussing
over the Boy Scout Ruling and then faulting those supporting the
decision. I think this is just going to be quite the last days/signs of the times show to
watch.
sorry off the subject. I just wanted to say that even the NY Times acknowledges that it was rapid.
17 years!
New York Times
Court Strikes Down U.S. Marriage Act
The
Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a 1996 law denying federal benefits to
legally married same-sex couples is unconstitutional, in a sign of how rapidly
the national debate over gay rights has shifted.
Now the ball is starting to roll, moving forward, on the adversary's side but we have...
2 The
a of the
b of God are committed unto man on the earth, and from thence shall the
c roll forth unto the ends of the earth, as the
d which is cut out of the mountain without hands shall roll forth, until it has
e the whole earth.
At some point this year, Ellen DeGeneres, was awarded the Mark Twain Award. I watched in amazement as she was applauded/lauded/plaudits for her courage in paving the way for honesty about being gay and at the end saluted her wife. I watched this come full circle and caught the clip of her outing scene which sent her career plummeting but she is now on top again. I wrote about her a couple of years ago here I don't follow her life but I have kept my eye open on her career.
The Puppy Episode[edit] (from Wikipedia about the show that brought Ellen down)
In 1997,
Ellen made television history when the title character
came out as a
lesbian in the famous "
Puppy Episode" (DeGeneres herself came out concurrent with the episode on
The Oprah Winfrey Show and in
TIME). To ensure a memorable moment, the coming out scene was made into a gag where, at an airport, Ellen turns and tells
Laura Dern "I'm gay!" – only to realize that she had turned right into the intercom microphone, announcing her sexuality to the entire terminal. Ellen DeGeneres's mother Betty can briefly be seen as one of the people in the terminal with a shocked reaction to the announcement.
[1]
The revelation ignited a storm of controversy, prompting ABC to place a
parental advisory at the beginning of each episode.
Ellen was successful enough in its early seasons to warrant annual renewal, due largely to DeGeneres's perceived appeal and comic ability, but only with Ellen's coming out did the show make its way into the wide public consciousness and hit a critical plateau. However, after the initial coming out frenzy, the show's
ratings declined and ABC began feeling the pain of a backlash regarding the "gay content" being exhibited. The final episodes of
Ellen were criticized for focusing too much on gay issues,
[3] a criticism begun in anti-gay circles but which spread to the mainstream media. Eventually, even some members of the gay community, including
Chaz Bono (who at the time was the media director for
GLAAD), began to criticize the show's serious new tone as well.
[4] ABC pulled the show from the air in May 1998 after five seasons.
Ellen, once so black-listed/rejected is now the darling it seems... worldwide....
SYDNEY (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres was applauded by a rapturous Aussie
audience like a cherished part of the family as she introduced her
Australian-born wife, Portia de Rossi, on a Sydney Harbour-side stage on
Saturday to begin pre-recording Down Under segments for her popular
U.S. TV show.
I find this interesting in reading how the ABC network put a parental
advisory before they gave Ellen the boot BUT I remembered seeing a TV
ad and I thought it was ABC and sure enough...unless they have changed
it...they have two shows with gay families!
The Fosters is an American drama series on ABC Family that premiered on June 3, 2013. Produced by Jennifer Lopez and her production company Nuyorican Productions, the series follows the lives of the Foster family, an interracial lesbian couple who are raising biological and adoptive children together.
*****************************AND also*****************************
Modern Family employs an ensemble cast. The show revolves around three families living in Los Angeles who are interrelated through Jay Prichett and his children, Claire and Mitchell. Jay (Ed O'Neill), the patriarch, is re-married to a much younger woman, Gloria (SofÃa Vergara), a passionate[33] Colombian woman, with whom he has a baby son, Fulgencio (Joe) Pritchett; and a 14-year-old son from Gloria's previous relationship, Manny (Rico Rodriguez). Jay's daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) is a homemaker married to Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell), a real estate agent and self-professed "cool dad". They have three children: Haley (Sarah Hyland) the stereotypical ditzy teenage girl,[34] Alex (Ariel Winter), the nerdy, smart middle child[35] and Luke (Nolan Gould), the offbeat only son.[36] Jay's son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), a lawyer, and his partner, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), have an adopted Vietnamese child, Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons). In the first season, the adult cast was paid a range of approximately $30,000 to $90,000 per episode.[37]
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I have no intention of devoting my blog or my time or my posts to things like this all the time but sometimes I find that I've accumulated a lot of minutia and it's sort of eating at me. This blog is one. I am an adult woman, firm in my gender and role and totally heterosexual, a strong testimony of the Gospel. I can't imagine the pain and suffering for families, friends and avowed gays with all the rejection. The confusion/estrangement/heartache they go through. I won't reject them as fellow beings but I cannot accept legalizing their needs/desires/wants through marriage. I do believe it will happen and those last 2 paragraphs in the Family Proclamation will come to pass . Hopefully I'm proven wrong. I will welcome it. Maybe I've been way sicker than I thought? Maybe I have a fever?
Maybe I'm delusional? That certainly doesn't sound faith filled but I feel faith filled. I think these last days are about being in the world and not of it. Facing the happenings and gearing up for what we need to do, to keep ourselves and our loved ones on the Lord's side.
Mothers- You are the ones. You are the ones that have to figure out how to teach this to your babies. The rest of us will do what we can but you are with them the majority of the time. I guess the cradle isn't any to soon to start preparing them for what you know, and I know and we all know... they are strong enough to make it through and lead us, as future leaders in the Church and have families of their own. My prayers are always with you but especially on this subject.
Section 65
Revelation on prayer given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, October 30, 1831.
1–2, The keys of the kingdom of God are committed to man on earth, and the gospel cause will triumph; 3–6, The millennial kingdom of heaven will come and join the kingdom of God on earth.
1 Hearken, and lo, a voice as of one sent down from on high, who is mighty and powerful, whose going forth is unto the ends of the earth, yea, whose voice is unto men—
a ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
2 The
a of the
b of God are committed unto man on the earth, and from thence shall the
c roll forth unto the ends of the earth, as the
d which is cut out of the mountain without hands shall roll forth, until it has
e the whole earth.
3 Yea, a voice crying—
a ye the way of the Lord, prepare ye the
b of the Lamb, make ready for the
c.
4 Pray unto the Lord,
a upon his holy name, make known his wonderful
b among the people.
5 Call upon the Lord, that his kingdom may go forth upon the earth, that the inhabitants thereof may receive it, and be prepared for the days to come, in the which the Son of Man shall
adown in heaven,
b in the brightness of his
c, to meet the
d of God which is set up on the earth.
6 Wherefore, may the
a of God go forth, that the
b of heaven may come, that thou, O God, mayest be
c in heaven so on earth, that thine
d may be subdued; for
e is the honor, power and glory, forever and ever. Amen.
