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I feel sort of emotional and fragile today, which is probably why the news story made me cry.

"Transsexuals and gays will never enter the heavenly kingdom," said Javier Lozano Barragan, until recently the Vatican's 'health minister'.

Yes, I know. The Catholic Church is full of people who believe I'm an abomination. Please don't lecture me on how I should know that. But really, what a cruel thing to say. I also think you have to be stretching a bit to infer that Paul is talking about sex in that damn quote. Degrading acts could just as well be murder, or being bigoted, self righteous jerks.

Mario is hard. Apparently "Mario hard" is a term these days. I decided to show Mike the secret Star levels in Super Mario World since he's never seen them. I forgot how much I hated them! Aaargh Mario hard. My thumbs!

It is cold.

My Yuletide story is giving me fits. As in, it just won't come to life. I need to think of something to do for it. I have a sort of idea but not much to go on.

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Barragan is also an idiot, because official Catholic doctrine says that humans can never know the extent of God's grace and forgiveness, and while they're pretty sure some things are sins, they're also, you know, rather enthusiastic about God's potential for giving you a friggin' break. So hateful, cruel, AND NOT EVEN CONSISTENT WITH YOUR OWN DOGMA, DUMBASS. >:(

And that's really what makes me crazy! Granted, I didn't grow up in the Church, and a year of classes for conversion doesn't teach you everything. But every time I hear something like that, I feel utterly gobsmacked because it goes against everything I learned there.