The Family Stone

What a wonderful Christmas season it has been! I have been up to see my fiancee dance, and sing and been to Christmas parties (plural!) with her. We have met friends and made a statement to my little community and her large one, that we are here to stay! Even my parents (for now) are ignoring the fact that I am not home as much as usual. They don't badger me why I am not home, maybe it is because there are guests (my sister and the kids) in the house. But I don't know. They haven't left things alone for long, so I am expecting something anytime.

My health is good. I found out that I have elevated cholesterol. It is time to start exercising, and I am watching my diet more carefully.

Today I visited my girlfriend and we went to see the film The Family Stone. We were going to see King Kong, but it was sold out and it was long, so the next showing was too late. I always want to see movies that challenge me, that cause me to think. Yet, I don't want to see anything racy.

The movie was good. In it there were two gay men. I am always upset how Hollywood tends to shove social change down our collective throats. This time it was a bit subtle. At least they didn't kiss. But one was a deaf white man, and his lover was a black man.

I would have never thought of it, but Stephen Hunter summarizes it well.

As another reviewer puts it, Sarah Jessica Parker sleeps in a different room from her fiancee. She seems to be wealthy, and then they paint her as a homophobe! Sounds like a Republican to me, with perhaps some evangelical Christian leanings, other than some foul language. To me it was attack her for what reason? I still don't know why the family didn't like her. But then again I don't know why my family doesn't like my fiancee. Women can be like that, perhaps they fear a threat...


In the end it turns out to be a wonderful Christmas, even the Christmas carols heard especially in the end hint at what Christmas is supposed to be--Peace on earth; Good will towards all men.
The reason for the peace is Jesus, not temporary familial harmony.

Despite the gay people in the movie, placed there for show, as my fiancee put it, adulterers and fornicators are just as bad as homosexuals in the Bible. The movie did, as she pointed out, show love towards the gay people. That is so important, to show them the love of Christ. I hope I can do that....