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but on a serious note the laws surrounding the marriage of two consenting adults who want to create a civil union and enjoy all the blessings that come with it should be seriously revised.
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Uniting American Families Act
by eisenstein indear friends,.
i am posting this for a close friend who is very involved in trying to get equal rights for everyone including marriage for homosexuals.
we have talked deeply about spiritual things and how we both escaped mind-controlling cults.
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Uniting American Families Act
by eisenstein indear friends,.
i am posting this for a close friend who is very involved in trying to get equal rights for everyone including marriage for homosexuals.
we have talked deeply about spiritual things and how we both escaped mind-controlling cults.
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Dear friends,
I am posting this for a close friend who is very involved in trying to get equal rights for everyone including marriage for homosexuals. We have talked deeply about spiritual things and how we both escaped mind-controlling cults. It is an informative letter for everyone, not just homosexuals, but for every person who cares about equal rights. You can also visit www.hrc.org to get more information about this.
Dear Mr. Edwards and members of the John Edwards campaign for President,
During the last week in July I was exchanging emails with your campaign headquarters, asking for clarification on Mr. Edwards position on the rights of non-heterosexuals to marry and enjoy all the benefits our society confers upon married couples, including immigration rights. At first your office was communicating with me, but you weren't giving me direct meaningful answers to my questions and concerns. When I persisted and tried to get you to answer me precisely, you stopped replying to me. From that, you demonstrated to me how your group values certain classes of American people. So I asked you to remove me from your email list. But you continued to send me your solicitations for money. Why should I support Mr. Edwards' campaign when he, like candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, apparently lack the courage and heart to uphold our Constitution and the Bill of Rights for all American citizens, and will likely never defend and protect my God-given inalienable rights, because I am homosexual!
I yearn to experience and enjoy the deep life's fulfillment that can be gained through the spiritual commitment of marriage to the one whom I love, as well as the health and financial benefits that result from a spiritual union that's legally recognized by all levels of my society. Civil unions and domestic partnerships are NOT equal to marriage, Mr. Edwards. They're just another insulting piece of stinking trash thrown in the face of non-heterosexual people who have been abused for centuries! Do you know how disgusting people appear when they insult us to the nation with their apologies that we can some day enjoy civil unions, but not marriage? What people like that are saying is we're another type of human being; too inferior to be eligible to partake of God's institution of marriage. Who are they to impose their own ancient religious or moral codes upon us and use that to deny us our happiness and security? You should not be playing God's role, especially if you are running for the elected office of President of the United States.
I've lived 4 years separated from my beloved who lives in another country. If I had to, I would sacrifice my life for him! The emotional, physical and financial drain on our lives because we cannot live together, is unfathomable. Our love for each other is genuine and deep, but we cannot be married or live in the United States together, contrasted to the old heterosexual men who commonly seek out their young foreign brides for sex and other forms of gratification, when these poor abused women likely don't even love them. But yet that's completely acceptable because it's a man and a woman thing, and they can live "happily ever after" in the "land of Liberty and Justice for all" in only a few short months. My love with my life partner is beautiful and it is profound. But now, after four years of trying to find some kind of solution to end our separation, I'm facing a total disruption of my life; leaving my parents who have no one to help them if I'm gone, my livelihood, and my country, to live in another country like Spain (God bless and strengthen the King of Spain for his righteousness) who welcomes us, because political leaders like you Mr. Edwards, Senator Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, Governor Mitt Romney, Dr. Alan Keyes and Congressman Ron Paul, etc., continue to support the status-quo of hateful, illegal laws created to put the screws to non-heterosexual families, to "throw [us] under the bus" and run over us!
In a previous email, I asked your campaign Mr. Edwards, why you haven't openly declared your support for the passage of the Uniting American Families Act? Will you answer that question? Will you show us that you care more about defending the equal rights for all Americans than you do for gaining the power of the presidency of the United States? As I said in my previous letter, if you do, I will support you.
I wish all of you the very best that life has to offer!Thank you for reading this. Perhaps it touches you or someone close to you.
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How is you all? Mouthy!
by mouthy inwell after a lot more gray hairs & frustration.
i am back .
i hope all is well.
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Welcome back ((((Mouthy))))
I haven't been around for a while myself, but was just checking in to find a friendly face, and well saw yours and remembered the good ole times on here.
Hope all is well with you.
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Another great loss in my life..I hesitate to post this ,,
by LyinEyes in[edited: links have been removed from this post.].
i hestitated to write this on xmas day and i hate to get anyone down, but i hope you understand and maybe send prayers my way.. .
dear friends i don't know how to even put my pain in words, or my great loss.
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Dearest Dede,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I saw this post a day or so ago, but haven't had time to send you my regards. I pray that God will comfort you in this time and bring peace to your family. I have read several of your posts and your sister's too, when she first posted here. She thought the world of you, I know she will always will be near you.
I lost my niece too, to suicide, or so her boyfriend said. (She jumped out of her boyfriend's truck going 60 miles per hour). It was never fully investigated. But, she was going through a lot of turmoil, she had just lost her daughter who was only 10 months old. So, I know she was very depressed. She would be 33 this coming January.
I truly believe your sister is in a better place, a safe place where no one will hurt her ever again...and like my niece is with her daughter, your sister is with your mother.
Please try and not to be so grieved and saddened to the point of it eating you up too. May your niece find strength and love from you and your family. I pray for you all to be reunited in a peaceful place one day.
I am sending my thoughts and a favorite song of my niece: Love of A Lifetime...by Firehouse.
I am truly saddened by your loss.
Love Kim
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Does Anyone know # of Witnesses Worldwide now?
by eisenstein ini am doing an essay on the topic of disfellowshipping for an english course i am taking.. .
does anyone know the current number of witnesses worldwide?.
or is it still the "over 6 million worldwide" in over 230 lands, i couldn't help myself.
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Thanks a million!!! garybus!!!
I appreciate your fast response and the links, they are helpful!
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Does Anyone know # of Witnesses Worldwide now?
by eisenstein ini am doing an essay on the topic of disfellowshipping for an english course i am taking.. .
does anyone know the current number of witnesses worldwide?.
or is it still the "over 6 million worldwide" in over 230 lands, i couldn't help myself.
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Hi to everyone again!
I am doing an essay on the topic of disfellowshipping for an English course I am taking.
Does anyone know the current number of witnesses worldwide?
Or is it still the "over 6 million worldwide" in over 230 lands, I couldn't help myself
No seriously, if anyone could respond, I would appreciate it...went to the official website and it only has the number for the year 2000.
Thanks in Advance!!!
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An oil pastel for Robdar and this forum
by eisenstein inwhen i first found this forum it was a year after september 11. i had recently seen the dateline special on the pedofiles in the organization and was completely dismayed.
everyone on this board has inspired me through the last couple or so years, especially robdar.
she told me to start doing my artwork again to express my thoughts.. here is something i did when i was younger, but scanned it in to the computer and in photoshop and retouched it some.
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((((Thanks, you guys))))T.S. yes that is the brooklyn bridge that so many people walked over to escape the nuclear-bomb-like smoke that fell from the towers sept 11. AND they walked right by the WT headquarters who, I later found out from this board, had closed their blinds and kept right on working, not offering a drop of water to any of those walking by. I pray that this is not true for their sakes.
btw, I did something recently I now regret because I had forgotten this, how could I have? I thought that maybe the money would get to the victims in the New Orleans area faster by sending it to the WT, I think I was dilusional that day...I just hope and pray that the money doesn't just go to building Kingdom Halls. OMG...
((((Robdar)))) thank you, yours is a beautiful soul too, hope to meet some day
kim
PS. Carol you have a pm :)
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An oil pastel for Robdar and this forum
by eisenstein inwhen i first found this forum it was a year after september 11. i had recently seen the dateline special on the pedofiles in the organization and was completely dismayed.
everyone on this board has inspired me through the last couple or so years, especially robdar.
she told me to start doing my artwork again to express my thoughts.. here is something i did when i was younger, but scanned it in to the computer and in photoshop and retouched it some.
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Thank you for Your positive responses, it is a combined pastel and oil pastel (using some pointalism techniques).
Talesin, yes that's the brooklyn bridge...
(((Frannie!!!))) Enjoy and take good care of yourself, I would like to see some of your portraits when you do them.
Love Kim
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Gods rests in the 7th part of the 7th day?
by Hellrider inthe wirdest thing about jw-doctrine is the calculations and the numbers: .
genesis: 2:1 the heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.2:2 by the seventh day god finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
2:3 god blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
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When you put it as clear as you have, it does sound ignorant, doesn't it.
I don't like that so much of the WT issues are speculative and surrounding dates...
It's not what is important today...
anyway, your analysis is on the dot, funny when you think about it
LMAO
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What song reminds you of your first crush/lover?
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"My eyes adored you" by Frankie Valli.
Every time I hear this song it reminds me of a young boy in my congregation in Oklahoma that I had a crush on. We were only kids and it was innocent. My twin sister and I were friends with his sister, and my sister had a crush on his younger brother.
One time his mother found a note that we had written back and forth and she was FURIOUS!!! I think the note was one of those:
I like you, do you like me? Yes or No, (kid stuff)
She called my mother and yelled her out. And that was it. I later heard as I had grown older and we had moved away that the kids had suffered severe abuse from their parents. This brought tears to my eyes, the kids were so sweet. I wish I could reconnect with them, but lost contact. I hope he and his brothers and sisters got help.
kim