As a Catholic, I am in the same boat as you. While I agree morally with many of the things we are talking about, I won't go so far as to prevent those that disagree with us.anygunanywhere wrote: Thank you for the acknowledgement, snatchel. Much appreciated.
Tolerance, with respect to the dems, gays, and others who want to advance their cause is a one way street. Those who want me to be tolerant have no tolerance for me and my beliefs.
Faithful Catholics, and many more from the other mainstream faiths are now the persecuted simply because we want to be left alone and celebrate our religious freedoms without having social engineering and practices that we do not support forced upon us.
Morality is not subjective. Morality is objective.
Anygunanywhere
Again, it goes back to my belief that I am not culpable for their lack of morality. God will understand that I am doing what I believe is best for my family and me. If I want any morality kept in my country, I must do what it takes to keep the republican party well represented in our government--even if that means I vote for a guy who turns a blind eye to sinful matters that frankly, he doesn't have any business in anyway.
It's difficult to be conservative while not being hypocritical. We all hate Bloomberg.... gosh, we hate him. I despise that man mostly because he thinks that as a politician, he has the right to get into people's business.... be it their guns, forcing women to breast feed, or whatever else. Yet here we all are, discussing how we want a politician to get into a gay man's business about who he marries. I don't know where the line is because we all draw the line where it fits in our own morals--be it conservative or liberal morals. This is why I disagree that morality is objective.
At the end of the day, as long as we can keep Republicans in office, I will still be able to attend mass, teach my children about God, pray at night with my family, and speak like this on a public forum.
To be honest, I don't think that you and I are going to ever agree on this issue. Topics like abortion, gay marriage, and other matters along those lines have deep roots in all of us. We think how we think, and while what I say here may make sense to you, you will never agree with me. So, Moderators, thank you for your tolerance in this matter. These things are not easy to talk about and I think that the fact that we as a forum can discuss issues like this in a civil, adult manner speaks volumes about the maturity and tolerance of the members here as well.
