Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

[NOTE: this post was begun on 11/27/2006. life got busy and i got sidetracked and so i'm just now finishing it up. it's with a little bit of dread that i offer it up because of the subject matter, but.... here ya go ---- ]

first of all, not that i have many readers overall these days (that's what happens when ya don't post regularly! duh!) and i doubt i have many (if any) readers of the h0m*se&ual community, but here's this disclaimer just in case...

yes, i am "against" that type of lifestyle. i believe it is not natural, it is not "inborn" or learned. it is chosen and it is against nature and against God. if you are in this type if lifestyle, i urge you to think about what you're doing. consider the simple order of nature... life cannot come from any sort of "union" between same sexes. it is impossible. therefore, it is not normal or natural.

(kjv) Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

if you live a h0m*se&ual lifestyle, you probably don't "believe in" God, but He is there regardless of that. and obviously from His Word, the Bible, He didn't created two men or two women, but one man and one woman who were perfectly matched physically to compliment each other. pefectly made to bear children and pefect in emotional characteristics to rear children with both nurture and protection.

you can email me if you would like to know more about the Bible (i'm no expert, but i do have people i can go to for answers) or God or to learn more about why this lifestyle is biblically wrong.

now... onto why i'm so furious at walmart.

first, they started out as this family-friendly one-stop store. help mom out by keeping her from having to drive all over town... great! i think sam walton was probably a sincere and nice fella. actually, my cousin who used to work in a giant sam's supply facility in a location i won't disclose, got to meet him and exchange a little bit of conversation. she thought he was an extremely nice gentleman.

of course, who knows. who ever really knows. however, looking at the way walmart was run during all the years when sam was in control, you don't see this kind of crud going on. yeah, yeah... it was a different time, different circumstances. but there are always unsavory causes, people. i haven't studied the history of walmart under its founder, but i'm just guessing that there aren't any iffy alliances between mr. walton and any organizations that would hurt families in particular and the nation in general.

so... here are some links you might be interested in if you wanna know why i'm so riled up.

http://wakeupwalmart.com
this is a site put together by employees and is not necessarily pointed toward the outside masses. but boy, oh boy! does it have tons of info on the inner workings of walmart. alot of this stuff i knew from watching my sis go through trying to deal with them and her health issues, but there is a morbid treasure trove of pustulous information there that will make your skin crawl. for instance how, of all the major 'big chain" stores, walmart has the most employees on welfare because of their crappy low pay and unaffordable health insurance. how about that? walmart has this gigantic commercial on tv showing how they are all about supporting the salvation army *ring, ring* but how many of their own employees can't make ends meet?

yeah. good on you, walmart.

then there's this site:
http://www.savewalmart.com/newsUpdatesDetail.asp?NewsUpdatesID=27
savewalmart.com the link is to an article about walmart now selling g@y porn book for teen girls. i wouldn't have posted this one except i checked it out.
it's also here:
http://www.cfacr.org/pages/article.php?aid=641
and here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06111507.html
i'd like to show you some "mainstream" news, but surprisingly (not!) they only give a nominal nod to this angle of the whole "walmart's-involvement-with-the-nglcc-thing". *sigh*

and another thing... what's with suddenly showing preferential treatment? oh, i know these people are so discriminated against, yadda, yadda. yes, i know some people do not know how to hate the sin but love the sinner. those people are not me, and they are not most other christians either.

and while we're on that note... what about christians. what group today is more maligned, belittled, scoffed at and singled out (can't use "discriminated" again now, can i?) and usually without so much as a peep from the public at large. not even from the christian community. sometimes yeah, that's the way it ought to be. sometimes we are left with no other option than to take the persecution in silence because to raise our voice in protest would not be right.

however... there are times when we need to stand up!! we need to scream NOOO!!! THIS IS WRONG!!! I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS!!!! I WILL FIGHT IT WITH WHATEVER MEANS I POSSESS!!!! things like abortion, adultery, corruption in the body of Christ and this. a store that normally got a huge amount of my husband's paycheck because it had most all i needed and it was convenient. but when i find that it takes my money, little that it may be in the big picture, and uses it to support things the Bible speaks strongly against, then i have to say NO. i refuse to give you my business. maybe you'll never notice. doesn't matter. i'll know that i did my part. i kept my money out of your hands.

some Christian groups i'm told, have recinded their boycott on walmart. simply because walmart made a statement saying that just because they paid $25K to join the NGLCC this didn't mean that they support gay marriage.

hmmm. [i have no clue what is wrong with don wildmon and the afa, frankly... just can't give up that walmart, maybe?]

{ copy the link and paste it into your browser to go to this site. i still don't want these folks linking back to me. gah. (http://www.nglcc.org/ht/d/sp/i/213/pid/213 == go see all the nice people who give thousands and thousands of dollars to this organization) }

sooo, what does THAT mean? their statement about gay marriage? a lotta nothin' if you ask me. it doesn't mean that they DON'T support it, for starters. it doesn't explain the $60K they already donated to some individual pet program under the nglcc. i can no longer find the article i read stating this fact online. >:( that's more money that our family will see in a year people. i just can't shop in a store that is throwing that kinda money into that kinda organization.

and NOW i have to say that i do NOT share the opinions of the people in these articles. i don't believe walmart just joining the nglcc was a statement supporting gay marriage. however... it certainly would not be otherwise, if you think about it logically now, would it? but my thoughts on that have more to do with the ridiculous "statement" they made about how they're not going to support or oppose any controversial issues. *riotus laughter* yeah, right. in THIS link is where it mentions that $60k donation. did you catch the name of that thar program???? and they say they're not supporting the gay marriage thing? maybe not outrightly, but a program like that? yeah, that's moving right toward double-tux and double-gown ceremonies, people. think about it.

*huff, puff, pant*

okay. once again, let me restate for the record... i do not hate hom*se&uals. i am not out to get all the gays, etc., etc. and so forth. but i do refuse to turn the other way and pretend all that stuff is okay. i refuse to spend money in a store that's made it so public (by accident or not) that they've signed up to support this kind of lifestyle. that's just all there is to it.

if you shop there, i'm not judging you either. that's your business. believe me. i know how hard it is to not shop in there. at one point when i had first stopped shopping there, i thought in a moment of fatigue and desperation, "what the heck...everyone else is still going there..." and a day or two later, i ended up in there when a friend stopped by on her way to take me home.

it literally made me ill. it just felt so wrong!!, ya know? later, i revisited the reasons why i decided to stop shopping there in the first place, and whether my 'directives' on those issues had changed.

nope. they hadn't. so, this time i got serious. i thought out more in depth exactly why i was no longer going to shop at walmart.

and i haven't been in there in about two months now. (maybe i said that already... i've been awhile getting this post together, obviously!) either way, what you do is what you do. it's not my business. but you're here visiting me, at my blog, so i can tell you what i think about things.

and there's what i think about walmart (and a bunch of other things, too! lol!

maybe, Lord willing, this made a little sense and didn't sound too fanatical. i'm not a fanatic. i'm just fed up. maybe you learned something you didn't know. maybe you didn't. either way, it's all good. all i know is that i can't shop in there and look myself in the mirror. *shudder*

and with that, i wish you many blessings and a good day! :)