What's a peacenik to do when son joins Army?

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 24, 2004 | CATHLEEN FALSANI RELIGION WRITER

[TASMANIANRED]

Rev. Michael Pfleger, the activist pastor of Chicago's St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church

What's wrong with this picture?

[TASMANIANRED]

I have never heard of a lay person being called pastor in a Roman Catholic church.


I read it again to make sure it wasn't Greek Catholic. The greek catholics do marry.

[El Gran Salseron]

I "booted him out on his ass and told him never to darken my doorstep again."

Does that answer your question?

[reg45]

I, too, wonder how a catholic priest has kids!?!

The same way anyone else does. For the sake of our younger audience, I won't go into the details.

;-p

[chuckwalla]

Nice try.
But this is not just any type of behaviour that his father might disapprove of. It is the very basis of his fathers life long protest however immaturely and his son is teaching him a lesson about responsibility and protest.
Hopefully his father is able to grow up and see that his life has been misused except for raising this great son.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks!

[ApplegateRanch]

In my experience, these are the folks who turn out to be damn fine marksmen.

That's partly because they don't have to unlearn bad habits.

[Servant of the 9]

What if your son came home one day and announced that he was doing something that was completely opposed to everything you stood for and believed in? Would you be as supportive of his decision as Father Pfleger has been? Or would you boot him out on his ass and tell him never to darken your door again? Be honest now.

You always suport family. ALWAYS.
That Father Pfleger did so was to meet the minumum standards of humanity.
If one of them turns out to be a Jeffrey Dahmer or a Scott Peterson, then it is your duty to take care of him in another sense, and not burden the State.

So9

[Non-Sequitur]

Does that answer your question?

Yeah. Proud of it, too, aren't you?

[Non-Sequitur]

Hopefully his father is able to grow up and see that his life has been misused except for raising this great son.

You may not agree with him but his entire life has been spent standing up for what he believes in the face of pressure. He has never compromised his principles. If only there was one person in Washington we could say that about.

[glorgau]

The guy would probably be much happier if his son had told him that he was homosexual and had married his boyfriend.

[chuckwalla]

This country was built by people who stood up against pressure. Unfortunatley the pressure is now coming from the anti-America crowd who do not understand by what mechanism their freedoms are secured.
The fact that the father is wrong does not make him patriotic.
Greatness is when one puts aside his petty wants and thinks and acts for greater good.
His son is one fine example of what has made this country free for his father to protest.
Now his son is protesting his own father's choices in order to guarantee his fathers freedom to protest the very mechanism that his father wishes wrongly to eliminate.

[bad company]

Be proud Papa. Your son grew up to be a better man than you are.

[El Gran Salseron]

Yes, I am very proud of it. My booting his ass out saved him from a world of alcohol and drugs. He's now clean.

[Petronski]

If he joined the priesthood as a widower, it would all make sense.

[It's me]

Or, he was a terrible parent and this is the way his son rebels??

[Non-Sequitur]

Now his son is protesting his own father's choices in order to guarantee his fathers freedom to protest the very mechanism that his father wishes wrongly to eliminate.

And the father is respecting the son's decision and supporting his right to make that decision. He isn't cutting him off or booting him out, like some around here would have done.

[Non-Sequitur]

Yes, I am very proud of it. My booting his ass out saved him from a world of alcohol and drugs. He's now clean.

And all the credit goes to you and your enlightened parenting. Right?

[chuckwalla]

Perhaps there is hope for him.

[exDemMom]

Sometimes, when a child is raised by an ultra-lefty, the child spends his life acutely aware of how phony the leftist positions are, and rejects them. The leftist in question may not even be consciously aware that he has embraced lies (although he knows it subconsciously), but some children see it very clearly.

Good for Pvt. Lamar. May he have a long and successful career in the Army.