Rocked the vote today..I couldn't believe how crowded the place was. It's usually not that busy, but it could have been because it was lunchtime, plus it was a presidential election. I made the same mistake I always make when somebody posts an opinion that is exactly the opposite of mine. She posted something about wondering if a person would be in office that would allow her control of her innerds. And I had to write a response and tell her that once your pregnant, there's two people, and one should not be making decisions about whether the other is going to live or not. She was raised exactly the opposite. So later I apologized...not for my opinion, but for not being gentle about it. Because I forget all too easily that it is not people we are fighting against, but against the unseen forces of evil in the spiritual realm. She wasn't mad, fortunately. Because I really don't think our differences of opinion are worth throwing away a friendship. The fact remains that, as a Christian, if I'm only hanging out with like-minded people, I'll never reach anybody for Christ. One hopes that one will say something that will maybe get a person thinking. On the other hand, one has to be careful not to start thinking as a non-believer. It's a fine balance. Then she posted a picture in favor of gay marriage---this time I restrained myself. For one thing, it's getting to the point where the only thing I'm going to do is get labelled a bigot and possibly cursed at. The same people hollering about tolerance are themselves the least tolerant people I've ever come across. They're tolerant unless you believe in the Bible as the Word of God, and you believe in the old fashioned definition of marriage--one man, one woman. I mean, marriage really isn't a right; it's not listed in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights; marriage is a sacrament of the church. So to call two people of the same sex a married couple is profaning something that God intended to be holy, and I can never vote in favor of profaning God's law. At the same time, I don't want to throw away a friendship because of these issues---I still hope and pray that eventually Christ will find her.