So Who Is Wicked?

Items of note for the day:

1.) I finally remembered that if I wish to leave the gym, I should pull on the gym door and not push. (Success!)

2.) I am watching too many ghost hunting reality TV shows in my spare time. (I woke up my brother early this morning angrily yelling "Get out of my house!" in my sleep. Maybe I should be a professional exorcist?)

3.) I made my own Mormon coffee this morning, and have decided I'll drink it. Always. (Hot water + Roma  + Coke Zero = Delicious. Don't knock it 'til ya try it.)

4.) This is probably the most hilarious thing I have ever seen in my life:  Just the Two of Us (And Ken Jeong)

Thought of the day:


I was thinking about this scripture Sunday:

And it came to pass that I said unto them that I knew that I had spoken hard things against the wicked, according to the truth; and the righteous have I justified, and testified that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center. (2 Nephi 16:2)


Well, here is the truth that I see:

Yeah, I know these couples are famous, and who knows what actually happens in famous people's lives. What I see in these pictures are symbols of this truth: that romantic love between people of the same sex is real. It isn't a counterfeit love. It isn't a mockery of love. These people are enjoying each other; they aren't sitting around pointing fingers at straight couples and chatting about what a blast it is to mimic their marital bliss. No, gay couples don't do this; they're too busy loving each other in relationships that are real and in relationships that last.


I like this letter posted here. I like to imagine that things ended up differently and that they would have lived long happy lives together. Maybe they would have even grow old together on a porch somewhere in some little town holding hands and things. I get a twinge of sadness every time I read that letter.


But that twinge validates the reality of it all. Love is real, and it is true that same sex love exists. And hey, guess what? Loving gay couples raise beautiful, well-adjusted children. 


They are also heroes.  


And there it is. It makes me think of another scripture, actually:


Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. (Matt. 7:20)

If it is true that truth is hard for the wicked, then what am I to think of those detractors who oppose gay marriage or even those who believe homosexuality is a choice? If it a choice, does it matter? By the fruit that I observe, that "choice" seems to be good one for many, many people.

Perhaps it is hard to understand for some, but that's why it's important to be vocal about these issues. Whenever God had something important to say to his people, he sent someone to be vocal, someone to shake up the status quo. Someone who had the balls to get on top of towers and walls and just say something.

There's a lot to be said about saying something.