Homosexuality and Divorce
I really hope it’s actually a satire gone wrong, but apparently a Christian Canberra couple says they’ll divorce in protest if gay marriage becomes legal. In addition to the obvious point of, “Even if homosexuality IS a sin, how does it affect you at all? Wouldn’t that be for God to deal with, along with all the sins He’s forgiven you for?” it’s worth noting that the Bible is passionately against divorce.
It comes up far more often than homosexuality… yet those who speak passionately against homosexual marriage graciously accept those who divorce and remarry. If you are a Christian like me, stop and think about WHY you are so focused on the one sin in the Bible that applies only to a small number of people. I wrote an article about this whole issue, with Bible verses, some time ago.
Oh, and by the way – if you’ve never met a gay person, you have. Although I’m deeply in love with my husband, I am sometimes attracted to women. Does that change your view of me? If so, why?
This is what a bisexual mother of two looks like.
Tally Ho! etc
TJ’s year of daily photos is done and dusted, and I have a real live book coming out in 2016. So what happens to the blog now?
I expect to blunder about a bit this year as I find my blogerly voice once more. I know a few things:
Reading over my book reviews from back in the day made me realise they were pretty good, and I should do more. If you have a young adult fantasy novel coming out (that doesn’t have graphic or violent sex), email me at fellissimo at hotmail dot com – but be warned, I can be harsh. I prefer books on kindle, so providing a review copy is nice and cheap.
As I might have mentioned, I have a real live book coming out. That means there’ll be blog stuff about pirates, writing stuff, and conference stuff.
The kids are likely to pop up every so often, because kids. Also I’ll write about whatever’s in my head, as always – mental illness, basic human rights for refugees, sweet delicious chocolate, and so on.
And there’s another big twist in my writing career soon to be announced. . . stay tuned!
Birthday Boy
Wow. A full year of daily photos – done!
TJ really enjoyed his party – he loves hiding under things, so we set up a total of seven cubbies in our living/kitchen area, and invited “just” family (over a dozen people including my sister’s girls). The last photo is of my kids and my sister’s kids lined up in age order – now aged 1, 2, 3 and 4. That pleases me immensely.
Penultimate
And here we see the second-last day of daily TJ photos. Tomorrow it’s his first birthday… and then this blog will look somewhat different.
Seriously!?!
So today my sister and her girls were visiting, and we went outside. As I was sitting talking to her, TJ stood up at the steps of the slide. It was so cute, like he was actually going to climb the ladder. Oh, lolz.
And then he put one foot up. Hilarious! And then he was standing on the first step – oh so proud of himself. Resisting the urge to grab my baby before he fell, I got close by and watched his epic journey. It took him about fifteen minutes, but he climbed ALL the way up, then carefully sorted himself out into the proper position, and then he slid down! I didn’t take a photo of him actually going down, because I was terrified he’d fall off the side and I was fully focused on 1being close to him. He was incredibly impressed with himself – as he should be. The first thing he did was turn around to climb back up (up the slope, since it was closer).
Felicity Banks 