So, I got off on a bit of a rant yesterday about the staggering difficulty of coaching a handful of basketball teams through what is quickly devolving into a frustration-rich five-week season. I’m done with that rant. It distracted me from some of the real stuff happening in our country. Things like the confirmation of same-sex marriage as a right. Other stuff happened too. Donald Trump is officially in the race for president and the defacto Republican nomination leader, given the fact that Jeb Bush has not apparently declared his candidacy for reals.
While I like to think that my personal life and situation have some blog value I am aware that this other stuff is a much bigger deal. Here’s what I have to say about the Supreme Court ruling: Well done. I am a supporter of Gay rights, but that isn’t the reason I say well done. I say that because I am proud of the court for standing up for individual rights as opposed to enforcing discrimination. I get it: We are a Christian nation, separation of church and state aside. However, Christianity is open to interpretation and the basic tenet of that religion, IMHO, is love and not the letter of a text that has been retranslated and reimagined by a King who had his own agenda… I’m not trying to blaspheme here. I’m just trying to say that if God is love, lets let love fly.
As for Trump, he’s got his good points, but he’s also a dude that struggles to recognize that his words carry consequences. Just because he feels he can say something and has the backing of American firepower, doesn’t mean that another nation won’t feel the same way and won’t feel like they need to stand up for themselves. We have gone through a tough decade and a half of Anti-American sentiment across the globe. We need someone who wants to reverse that trend, not someone who may quite possibly make things worse in that regards…
Who am I voting for? I have no idea yet.