And for One of the “the others”: Just for the record: I am a Bible-believing Christian. I am in church every week. I am active in service. I believe in the Jesus who stands for social justice and was a friend to all. I don’t use my faith to exclude others, or to make it ok for me to be prosperous. I weep for American Christianity. It isn’t what He had in mind, at all. Republicans do not have a lock on Christian values. Obama IS a Christian. He shows it, he doesn’t just talk about it. I have had enough of 8 years of talk.

I am voting for Obama.

I have huge differences with my inlaws, but we love eachother just the same…and that means I am happy he’s safe and anxious to share the news with everyone.

If everyone hid anything that was political, because it was also personal, or if I stopped speaking openly about my family, we’d never discuss this war and all it’s implications. That goes for my family and yours.

My brother in law happened to arrive home at a time I was leaving. I would have written about how emotional his being safe was for my family, regardless of me going to the DNC.

Perhaps you should read your bible more think about what you assume of me. What you assume of my blog. And what you assume my motivation is in REJOICING that my husband’s brother is ALIVE and with his family, whom I love.

I will continue to talk about my family, my life, my politics because it’s ALL personal. It’s affected MY HOME.

If you don’t like it, don’t read.

“And the only thing I could associate it with was my crazy ass in laws. My sister-in-law was very excited once when my brother-in-law got to pick up Jerry Falwell from the airport to speak at their seminary.”

Yes, I am one of “The Others” that you have described in some of your posts. I do want my children to have Christian values and respect their elders. I pray that my children do not use their family members to further their own purposes. Just my two cents.