- 08:09 woke to find our vintage nelson asterisk clock strangled during the night by balloon ribbon.
- 08:11 must have wrapped around and around its hands as they turned. hour by hour. almost wish we had it on time-lapse video.
- 08:26 also feeling kinda vindicated about my [formerly thought to be] paranoid No Balloons With Ribbons In The Room While You're Sleeping rule.
- 16:48 it is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in want of an exacto knife will never, ever, find it in stock at michael's. #0for3tries
- 18:40 argh. was just completely unhelpful to police re: attack that happened in our courtyard. i could only see victim, not her attacker.
- 18:41 kind of relieved no one is going to be calling me to testify, though.
- 18:44 my neighbor, on having to walk around at night with 2 sexual predators active in the 'hood: "it's a little creepy!" uh. you could say that.
- 20:18 for the love of...why is the school PTA sending me "It's important we voice our strong opposition to same-sex marriage in ny state" emails??
- 20:28 what is this "our opposition" they're talking about? i am in FAVOR, not opposed. also, since when is this what a PTA mailing list is for?
- 20:33 i'm rarely reminded so starkly that i don't belong here. then again, i'm not sure where in the orthodox world i would belong any better.
- 20:35 i'm resigned to being the fish out of water, mostly. but sometimes i would like just a LITTLE acknowledgment that NOT EVERYONE THINKS ALIKE.
- 20:38 my. i seem to have at least one rant a day lately, don't i? #crankypants
- 20:40 thinking of making the kids some "Separation Of Church And State: It's Good For The Jews" t-shirts.
- 21:13 MORE HERETICAL THINGS I BELIEVE: abortion should stay legal. there will be orthodox women rabbis. abraham should have refused to kill isaac.
- 21:13 [that last one is the one that took me longest to say out loud.]
- 21:49 ha! okay, i didn't think the abraham/isaac heresy would be the one getting the most reaction HERE. :)
- 21:51 i never use twitlonger, but i don't want to clutter up your feeds with a long explanation, either, so i'll try to write one now. stand by.
- 22:20 Okay, here's why I think Abraham failed his test instead of passing it. The way it was always taught to me, the (cont) tl.gd/b4u59f
Thursday, June 16, 2011
From Twitter 06-15-2011
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Persephone, thank you for your "heretical" tweets today. (Or was that yesterday? Anyway.) I'm a fish-out-of-water Catholic myself, and the words you said could have come right out of my mouth. I can't really explain why, but knowing that you believe some of the same things I believe while disagreeing with an entirely different religious community a thousand miles away...it made me feel...not-so-alone. :)
Just wanted to tell you that I too am an orthodox Jewish woman who feels completely alone in the NY orthodox community. I too think abortions should remain legal, and civil gay marriage should become so. Thanks from a fellow heretic.
Oh Persephone. Thank you I feel so irritated when frum people make right-wing assertions with the assumption that we all feel the same way. It's most aggravating when it's with things that have nothing to do with the halacha, but your example is pretty annoying, too.
Abortion is my personal aargh issue. It's like, hi, religious freedom, anyone?
A thoughtful Conservative friend once observed that I shouldn't be threatened by a presidential candidate's anti-choice platform because if abortion-rights decisions got kicked back to the states, we lived in NJ--so what are the odds that a liberal place like NJ would ever restrict our (theoretical) halachicly permitted/mandated abortion?
Follow that?
So, what? I want frum women in South Carolina to have to travel out of state for abortions? I don't care because it doesn't affect me personally? Hello?
I guess you've touched a nerve here.
I'd like to close by pointing out that if you are unfamiliar with Charlie Hall (in person or as a prolific online commenter), he's worth knowing. I find he does a wonderful job of articulating the position of an orthodox liberal when my life-with-young-children brain can only manage, "gaah..but..no...gaah."
agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
but i am BT, so that's my excuse ;) i refuse to exchange my free will to be an automaton who takes away other people's civil rights.
oops, did i say that out loud?
Of course abortions should be legal. Discouraged, maybe, but definitely legal. Has anyone seen stats (are there even?) on medical complications (to put it mildly) of the illegal ones?
There are 'reasons' that I don't believe *warrant* an abortion, but if it isn't my body, I'm sure no one's asking my opinion.
And as far as same-sex civil union/marriage, I like the idea of calling ALL the government-acknowledged ones civil unions, and letting the religion-sanctioned ones keep the term marriage. Personally, I'd vote for any intended-as-permanent family situation to get the same legal rights as a traditional nuclear family (med. insurance, child support if it dissolves, etc).
How radical does that make me?
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