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How to Discuss Same-Sex Marriage With Dissenting Family Members
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 11-15-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 11/16/2015 7:08:50 AM PST by Salvation

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1 posted on 11/16/2015 7:08:50 AM PST by Salvation
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To: nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; marshmallow; ...

Monsignor Pope Ping!


2 posted on 11/16/2015 7:12:23 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I can only imagine this could very well be a topic that comes up around the Thanksgiving dinner table this year. I appreciate having something to help me when it does eventually arise.


3 posted on 11/16/2015 7:20:17 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Salvation

Discuss? Anyone buying in to the sick notion of faggot-marriage isn’t welcome under my roof, family or not.


4 posted on 11/16/2015 7:22:32 AM PST by greene66
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To: Salvation

Good luck with that. This article assumes that you would be able to have a reasonable discussion with a gay marriage supporter.
All you have to do is say “I don’t support gay marriage” and the majority of supporters start nearly foaming at the mouth and then start caling you a bigot and a homophobe and hate-monger. Trying to have a rational discussion with them is like trying to herd cats.


5 posted on 11/16/2015 7:23:50 AM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: Salvation

Thanks for this post.


6 posted on 11/16/2015 7:28:09 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: greene66

My father lost his job in the late 50s for standing up for Civil Rights. His grandchildren grew up with that story. They now believe that “gay rights” are in the same category. I’m not going to exclude them from my life because of what they see as a continuation of their grandfather’s heritage. I strongly believe that they are wrong as does my surviving brother but simply excluding them isn’t productive. I also wonder whether you also exclude anyone who has had heterosexual sex outside of marriage or if you quiz anyone about that before allowing them into your home. Or whether you ask them whether they have master-bated in the past few weeks. We have two friends who have same sex attraction. (they don’t know each other - i.e., not partners) We also don’t exclude them from our lives. Its our job to be a witness to a strong covenant marriage. (46 years)


7 posted on 11/16/2015 7:29:33 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Salvation

What do you tell a friend who has just told you that his niece is now a nephew (a scientist, by the way) and you have to accept it?


8 posted on 11/16/2015 7:37:20 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: Mercat

One of the reasons the past is so enticing to so many of us is that no matter what sins people were committing, they hide it and didn’t announce it during Thanksgiving dinner. That way, we could invite everyone without fear of a food fight.

I will not allow discussion of politics at my table during the holidays.


9 posted on 11/16/2015 7:39:22 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: Mercat

The people who pushed faggot-marriage can all go choke to death for all I care. They’ve mightily contributed to turning this country into the sick, depraved cesspool it has now become. A country I’m now disgusted and ashamed of. A pervert nation.


10 posted on 11/16/2015 7:40:54 AM PST by greene66
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To: Mercat

One of the reasons the past is so enticing to so many of us is that no matter what sins people were committing, they hide it and didn’t announce it during Thanksgiving dinner. That way, we could invite everyone without fear of a food fight.

I will not allow discussion of politics at my table during the holidays.


11 posted on 11/16/2015 7:42:18 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: FamiliarFace
I can only imagine this could very well be a topic that comes up around the Thanksgiving dinner table this year.

That topic is sooo last year. This year's topic is transgender rights.

12 posted on 11/16/2015 8:04:32 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:21)
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To: chae
Good luck with that. This article assumes that you would be able to have a reasonable discussion with a gay marriage supporter. All you have to do is say “I don’t support gay marriage” and the majority of supporters start nearly foaming at the mouth and then start caling you a bigot and a homophobe and hate-monger. Trying to have a rational discussion with them is like trying to herd cats.

Because one can't reason with unreasonable people and their ideas, I generally ask them this question.

Why is two women titilating one another or one man putting his lower proboscis into another man's hind end so appealing to you?

13 posted on 11/16/2015 8:06:24 AM PST by Parmy
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Tell them to look at the state of the world and THEN tell
you that GAY MARRIAGE is still all that fit a topic to
talk about. If they persist, “Yada Yada Yada Yak Yak Yak”,
would be a good answer. -


14 posted on 11/16/2015 8:29:24 AM PST by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: Salvation

This is not the appropriate forum to state the one and only question I would ask.


15 posted on 11/16/2015 8:32:00 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: miss marmelstein

What about, “Oh, how interesting ...”?


16 posted on 11/16/2015 8:50:53 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged." James 5:9)
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To: greene66

I am with you. The few liberals in my family do not ever show their face at my house and never will!


17 posted on 11/16/2015 9:23:20 AM PST by ohioman
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To: Mercat

My perspective is to not exclude people from your life simply because you disagree with them. You don’t have to compromise your position. Perhaps they may consider the suggestion to read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Cosmic-Justice-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0684864630/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1447695183&sr=1-1


18 posted on 11/16/2015 9:31:39 AM PST by oblomov
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To: Salvation

“I love my mother; she loves me. You’d have no objections to our marriage to each other, would you?”


19 posted on 11/16/2015 9:31:49 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: miss marmelstein
What do you tell a friend who has just told you that his niece is now a nephew (a scientist, by the way) and you have to accept it?

Really? How did she manage to change the genetic code in every cell of their body? If she still has XX chromosomes then she is still a woman no matter how she mutilates her body to look otherwise

20 posted on 11/16/2015 10:00:31 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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