to be mentioned in every family email. He wears a red wrist band, actually a few of different colors. I asked him what it meant (I thought it was a sports thing), it was a Jesus thing.
He and his wife have open carry permits. They live in Texas; I don't. He carries a pistol in his briefcase, even though he has a smart, very curious 9 year old daughter. He has a lot of guns. I worry about my niece. She likes to pull me away and tell me her secrets. She mentioned someone having a gun at a party. Of course, I told her to leave immediately and call an adult. She also tells me what they say about me...hurtsher feelings. They basically think anyone but RWs are a threat to their daughter, and voting for Hillary or Obama is left wing crazy, un Christian.
Guess Im guilty, because that stuff makes me ashamed to
be.
I love my niece dearly, but bro has blocked my having a relationship with her.She would get their phone and call occasionally...and say, they are in the bedroom or something...but I got the message. I'm trying to get over it.
They didn't think my daughter's beautiful wedding was Christian. Lovely, large outdoor wedding. Lots of diversity. She's actually Methodist, but sees no need to wear neon signs. Married, kids, a doctor, but not Christian enough for them. It is the Dem thing. I don't like them, and they don't like me. The difference is RW are malicious, and we rarely are. DT has already exacerbated our family divides.
The hypocrisy drives me so crazy, all of the jesus and gun talk with a few laughs at someone's implied racist remark, just makes me sick. They are so dumb (even though both these guys and wives are corporate presidents), that they don't even know their remarks are racists, or maybe they do it to taunt me. Disrespectful, at the least. We even had a Palestinian Muslim at the dinner table. It is so awful to raise a little girl in that environment. When my child was growing up, we would leave and state the reason, for those sorts of remarks. Hopefully, someday the little girl will overcome it. For many of us, it never took anyway. I think I see it taking though, with all of the money and private schools.
Very odd that with very similar backgrounds, my brother, is totally opposite. He went one way, and I went the other. Some relatives, friends, and books influenced me, and others influenced him. Flumoxed
Sorry...got wound up.
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