Can of Worms

First off, I have loved being a teacher during the elections. I love trying to show both sides of any issue equally, for my own sake as well as for my students. We had a mock election with my 8th graders, and they voted for Obama. I was very surprised.
But the can of worms I'm opening is actually about Prop 8. I know I know, we're all a little sick of it. I haven't posted yet because I wasn't sure what to say. Well I checked out my friends post (his wife actually does the posting) and she said such great things and feels so similar to how I feel, that I'm just going to refer you all to her. It's the link "Jason" and scroll down to her post about Prop 8. On Sunday (yesterday) during Sunday School someone brought it up, and I just kept thinking about it. Later in the lesson we read somewhere in Mormon how he was leading this army of terribly wicked wicked people, but he didn't hate them at all. We shows us that we separate behavior from the person. (I could write a whole post about how important that separation is in our "self talk"). Now don't get me wrong, I think wicked is a strong word that our General Authorities don't even use to describe people, so I don't feel comfortable either (I'm not bold like Mormon). But the point I'm making, is Mormon prayed all night for these people and loved them with all his heart. I don't feel that from people around me. We need to love those that persecute us right? So my new goal is to pray that the anger some have for our church right now, and for those who are hurt and feel discriminated against, will feel healing and love from us, individually and as a church. I know it's hard, but let's not be the close minded or hateful people some think we are. I believe in prayer. I know that it will help me in my heart, and help the situation. Having recently been married, I have had to get used to the idea of marriage, and holy cow do I love it! It's so sacred to me now, more than before because John is sacred to me. We must keep the meaning of marriage sacred. I just had to get that out :)