You can but no one else can? Exercise those rights

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Okay, so the school takes the kids on a field trip to see the gay marriage of their teacher and this is a because the school considers it a learning experience?  And so, too bad to those people whose religion this goes against.  But if I were a teacher or ran a school and it was decided that we would be taking our children on a field trip to say a Christian church or maybe Israel where Jesus lived and died, you know totally as a learning experience and to teach them the history of a man that many people, even those who are not Christians, believed to have lived, there would be world wide riots!  Parents would be spitting mad, the school would be sued, it would be national news and I would be fired.  It would be againts people's beliefs and I would be "shoving my religion down their throats" and blah blah blah. 

Being gay is a sin.  I didn't come up with that God Our Father and Creator made that one up.  The Bible speaks VERY plainly about it many times.  Tolerance does NOT mean agreement.  Tolerance is NOT accepting something that is wrong.  Saying that it is wrong is NOT intolerance.  I dont think that someone who is gay should be shunned, beaten, publically humiliated.  That is tolerance. 

Personally I would come down hard on the kid at home, but if I had to I would get ACLU to defend his right to say it.

they would actually be getting more rights than heterosexual students because they would be getting a school designed for them.  Plenty of heterosexual high schoolers are harrassed and bullied and nowhere is there a school dedicated to serving these kids.  They are referred to counselors and support groups designed to teach them how to cope.  It's segregation pure and simple, only now it's a minority group segrating itself from society.  And let's not forget this isn't a private school where the homosexual students pay tuition, this is a public, state funded school.  The cost of running this "special" school comes out of the pockets of all taxpayers.  How is that fair?  If they want their own school, it should be a private school that requires them and their families pay a tuition. 

Have you got a dog?

I've got a 120 pound Great Pyrenees (kinda looks like a polar bear).  I run/walk with him a coupla times a day...before my 6 a.m.shift, lunch time, after my shift is usually the longest walk, then again before bedtime...We just wander around the woods....If he smells a squirrel fart and I'm not looking directly at him he'll trip me up or pull me in a ditch/sinkhole.  Also have a 12 lb cat that walks with us and tries to "sneak"  the dog (hides in the bushes and darts out sitcking his tongue out as if to say "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah! You're on a string and I'm not!).   Keeps ya on your toesI    

It is cheap and quite a workout.  Cat

I received an iTunes gift card for Christmas and am looking for music I can download to my iPod to exercise by.  I'd really like exercise-specific music that includes a slower song or two for the warmup, then a steady faster rhythm for 30 minutes or so and then another slower song for the cooldown.

I suppose I could create my own list, but it would take me way too long to figure out 30 minutes' worth of songs with the same basic rhythm!

Any help sure would be appreciated.  I'm so tired of feeling guilty every time I walk past the treadmill that I just "had" to have.

I have had oodles of tests to rule out thyroid, anemia, and even Lupus and Lyme.  I did get something positive on the connective-tissue studies but never followed up on it because of financial issues and not feeling all that crappy to worry about it.  However, now that you mention it, I did feel better when I was walking down my road in the warmer weather, so that may be it!  I do get exercise doing chores, but it's a different kind of exercise...not the "me" kind I guess you could say.  I've got some DVD by Leslie Sansone that does a mile or 2 miles and I think I'll give it a go.  Can't hurt, right? 

Thank you so much for the advice!  Always helps to have a second set of eyes to look at something in a new way!  It's much appreciated!

and I balance just fine with foot pedal.  I dont' sit here for eight hours on my ball.  Sometimes I switch out my chair and my ball.  Just depends on how my bottom is feeling.  I too sometimes sit with my leg folded under my other leg while working, but that's not good for your veins.  I have really bad vericose veins (that's another story!)

good luck!

Okay. I am overweight by about 30 pounds.  A week ago I got back on the treadmill and started walking/jogging for about 20-30 minutes - 5 days a week.  This is week 2. I'm very motivated.  Will get on the treadmill in a few minutes.  I'm not seeing any results.  haha  Don't laugh.  I know it's early, but here's my question and dilemma.  I have NO desire to change my eating habits. None. Zilch.  In fact, don't tell me I have to do it because I won't.  I don't eat a whole lot, I just eat whatever I want.  I don't eat late - not after 6, usually.  I do like an occasional Coke.  I like chocolate.  I otherwise eat healthy, but until Jan of this year I have done NOTHING in the way of exercise for years.  Just kept having kids and sitting on my bum.

When can I start seeing results and do you think that I can see results by working out this much and NOT changing my eating habits. It's a psychological thing.  I can't do it right now. I just can't.  And what makes it worse (the eating part) is when I fail (which is EVERY time) I beat myself up afterwards and feel worse than before.  With this jog/walking thing, I feel GREAT. I feel more energy already and I actually am enjoying the time alone doing it.

Anyone have experience with this?