Happy Valentine's Day!

Hopefully You Can Enjoy It With Someone You Love

Maybe you’re just hanging with your dog…

Maybe you’re navigating the dating scene

Be careful out there!

I mean you could always be married right? That’s romantic!

I wouldn’t be trusting this very American style Valentine to just anyone…

It could be worse…

Here’s a fun one…Valentine’s Day was started in honor of Valentinus, a third century Roman priest who was beaten, dismembered and beheaded for defying Emperor Claudius II’s ban on performing the Sacrament of Marriage at the time. Valentinus married many couples before execution. He died on or around February 14 of 270 AD. In 496 Pope Gelasius marked St. Valentine’s day as February 14 in honor of the martyred priest who was so devoted to enshrining holy matrimony. The tradition of celebrating romantic love on February 14 spread around the globe to non Christian countries such as India and Thailand, making Valentine’s Day as one of the most enduring and widely known holidays in the world.

It might sound odd in modern times but regulating who marries and procreates and under what circumstances has been a key interest of the elites at least since Biblical times. I’m sure we’re all past that now. I mean it’s not like the US Embassy would separate families for being stupid enough to get married or anything, am I right?

Sigh. Here’s my Valentine:

It is after all Taco Tuesday…

Buy me a ko-fi