Subtract Two Minutes From Awesome

Let me start off by saying I had an awesome day. I managed to wake up before nine (which is something I've been trying to do all day), I had breakfast while playing video games, and then I spent the rest of the day watching Disney movies on VHS with awesome people. It was so ridiculously hot, and there were a lot of people, but I LOVE watching Disney movies with large groups of people. I love singing obnoxiously loud to the songs (and I must say, I'm pretty beastly at "One Jump Ahead" from Aladdin because one day last summer I decided I had to learn all the lyrics) and analyzing the weird things Disney sticks in movies and hopes no one notices. I don't think I've ever analyzed Mulan as much as we did tonight. Like, why do they unroll scrolls and read them horizontally when they're written and supposed to be read vertically? Or where does that doctor come from when they're on the mountain and Mulan (as Ping) got injured? Things like that.

Due to this awesome afternoon of Disney movies and watching Jessica burn off some of the hair on her arm, I was going to make this post about my favorite Disney movies or my favorite Disney characters. I had a list going as I was driving home, and I was already thinking about the pictures I have on my hard drive that I would use.

Except when I was driving home, in the last two minutes of my drive the 10:00 show came on the Christian radio station I listen to. Now, I know that people are going to think differently from me, and I know that some of those beliefs may be offensive to me. And, honestly, I get to a point where I just try to ignore it because it's going to either make me mad or make my a hypocrite to call them out on it. However, when they start to belittle my own beliefs? Then I have a problem.

The radio program was discussing how freedom of religion is being attacked due to Prop 8 being overturned in California. That, by validating same-sex marriage, public education will somehow attack freedom of religion in this country. Now, I understand that some people are afraid of change and afraid of things they don't understand. But then they went on to say how "there are even some Christians" who think that what two consenting adults do is between them. Which I agree with. I also know the fact that everyone sins, that God loves everyone despite these sins, so I try very hard to love and accept everyone no matter what they do or what they believe. I may disagree with them or think that they're wrong. So when someone else tells me that as a Christian I should believe something else? That bothers me.

Anyway, that was really the only bad part of my day. So, two minutes out of the rest of the 24 hours of awesome? I'm okay with that. Still, I guess I don't understand why we must fight wars and hate other people over a difference of opinion. I know I'm not perfect myself, and I get angry with people sometime. I just wish people would try harder sometimes.