Posted by:
releve
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Date: January 30, 2014 09:20PM
I started a Red Hat group ten years ago. We only wore the hats on a couple of occasions, but have continued to meet each month. The idea behind a Red Hat group is that ladies get together and do something just for the fun of it. Each woman chooses a month to hostess and she gets to decide what the group will do. My group is running out of good ideas and lately it's been one house party after another. Since I was TBM when I started the group, all but one of the ladies is TBM. The lone hold out is a Presbyterian deacon. As I have gotten more liberal the rest of the group as become more entrenched (get the reference?). I've been wondering how I could reinvigorate this group and get it to feel less like another RS meeting.
Today, while shopping, I ran into one of the members and we started talking about this and that and I mentioned that I don't like it when Utah is in the national news for an embarrassing reason. I was referring to the school lunch debacle. She then brought up the SSM issue and how she hated watching same sex couples getting married. OMG! I knew my old friends were TBM, but I guess it hadn't occurred to me that that meant they were also homophobic. I confessed that I was in favor of marriage equality and stated some of my reasons why. When she explained her reasons for being against marriage equality she somehow (I'm not quite sure how) used creationism as one of her reasons. She obviously considers that cockamamie story in the temple to be literal.
My parting comment was that I wished that the money Utah was spending fighting against SSM could be put to a better use. Perhaps a fund to be used by school children who forgot their lunch money.
I don't think I'm going to have to worry about my Red Hat group anymore. If they don't kick me out, I'm probably going to have to resign.
Maybe I'll start a new group called the Red Hat Heretics.