I'm annoyed today too.
I know we're not supposed to get political on here, and I'm certainly not intending to stir anything up, but I'm gonna vent! LOL. I apologize ahead of time for the length of it.
So, my church has its opinions on gay marriage. I have my opinions on gay marriage. Lets say they clash a little bit, k? My Bishop knows darn WELL how I feel about this - I've talked with him about it for hours on end. So does every single person in my class because last time it was brought up I opened my mouth and said how I felt about it. My aunt is one of my leaders in my young womens' group in church, and we have the same opinion on this subject. Well we were sitting in class today and the Bishop was joining us and we were talking about things in today's society that go against the teachings, and of COURSE gay marriage was brought up - by none other than the Bishop AS he was looking right at me with one of those "this should be good" looks on his face!!
This led to a 5 minute chorus of "Thank goodness NJ didn't legalize it!" "OOoh I have a story about that!" "Gay people are ruining marriage!" My aunt and I sat there for 5 minutes and listened to them toss this stuff around and didn't say anything (which is very unlike me. anyone who knows me knows that I tend to um...speak my mind haha). and they all kept glancing at my aunt and I while this was going on. Then it was over (finally), and the other leader went on to teach a (wonderful) lesson about NOT judging and how it's not our job to judge others. I was so irritated.
I LOVE my church. Honest I do. I believe in it, I go every week, etc. But this one thing really grates on my nerves and I KNOW that my Bishop brought it up to see if he would get a reaction out of me. I really consider the people in my ward to be my church "family" but I feel so ostracized when that discussion comes up I don't understand why they can't just leave it alone.
OR why they can't accept the fact that other people have different opinions.
*sigh* Thank you for letting me get that out of my system. I hope I didn't offend anyone. This has been bothering me all day and I'm afraid that if I held it in for too long I would go off on someone.
