Why I'm Voting For Family

The past few months have been pretty crazy with 4 California judges IGNORING the voice of the people and declaring it is unconstitutional to not allow homosexual couples to marry. First of all, why do homosexual couples want to be the same as heterosexual couples when all along they've been screaming at the public for not accepting them as different from heterosexuals? I like what the General Authorities have said that the word "tolerance" has now come to mean "to condone" when it really means "love and forgiveness". We love those that struggle with same-gender attraction and in no way belittle them for experiencing these struggles. I personally cannot even imagine how great of a trial that is.
Nevertheless, it is important to protect the family as the fundamental unit of society. The ideal family consists of a mother and father rearing their children in love and righteousness. I know there are many that have to do without a husband, wife, mother, or a father, and we send our love and support to those brave and hard-working single parents.
The family--needless to say--is under attack. There are those that have no respect for our beliefs and want to force us to accept their lifestyle as equivalent to what we have come to know since the beginning of time as marriage and the family. They want to force our church leaders to marry two women or two men, they want to force religiously-based adoption agencies to allow a child to have two moms or two dads, they want to force teachers no matter what their personal beliefs to teach young children that it doesn't matter if two women or men want to get married or have children.
We as Christians and other family-oriented people are being attacked for being intolerant. Who's really being intolerant here?

Vote Yes on Prop 8. Protect the divine institution of marriage and the family.

Conference

First of all, thank you to Suzette for not only taking me to conference, but for also helping me get set up on my blog!

Conference weekend was amazing! I got to spend Saturday in Layton with my grandma. It was really nice having someone take care of me for a day. like taking me shopping and cooking for me, etc... Then Saturday night, I was with my cousin Delanie, telling her how I haven't slept in at all this semester because every weekend I have something going on in the morning and how I'm looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. Then Suzette calls with tickets to Sunday morning! Of course I was excited, and then decided that I'm just not meant to sleep in. At all. Conference was amazing, of course. I really loved Pres. Monson's talk about finding joy in your today's and not your yesterdays. It was fun to see Sergio, Cami, and to meet Cami's boyfriend Justin. All in all, I think it was our least stressful Conference trip yet!