tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103254.post112302366127669760..comments2023-10-02T03:47:19.097-06:00Comments on watch out for mama: Stuck in the middle with youAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545496730057771946noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103254.post-4542851766648210392007-04-26T06:49:00.000-06:002007-04-26T06:49:00.000-06:00Ana, I'd be interested in what your thoughts are a...Ana, I'd be interested in what your thoughts are about what has happened here in MA...where the state ordered Catholic Charities to allow adoptions to gay couples...which lead CC to stop adoptions all together. So to me, it kind of looks like the next thing in line is for them to order the churches to perform gay marriages.Essyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07502370047285832211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103254.post-1123381758398560562005-08-06T20:29:00.000-06:002005-08-06T20:29:00.000-06:00Ana, It would have been difficult for me to be in ...Ana, It would have been difficult for me to be in California during Proposition 22. I did live here in Utah last year, but I didn't feel any pressure from the Church one way or the other. I voted no on it and had a "No on 3" sticker on my car. (Of course, it passed anyway.) I am uncomfortable with the Church influencing members' voting. <BR/>As to gay marriage, I like your solution of civil unions for everyone and church marriage as individual churches see fit.Heather P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10821710738522668591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103254.post-1123085902885289642005-08-03T10:18:00.000-06:002005-08-03T10:18:00.000-06:00Well, I'm no legal eagle, but my ideal solution is...Well, I'm no legal eagle, but my ideal solution is pretty libertarian. Get the government out of the marriage business altogether. Legal unions should be only civil, and the same for everyone. Then whoever wanted to have a church-sanctified marriage could do so within the church of their choice. Inevitably there would be churches willing to sanctify gay marriage. But each church would be able to set its own limits. So that's just another way of making gay marriage legal, but I think it would protect the freedom of individual churches to preserve their doctrinal preferences.<BR/><BR/>And BTW, my marriage cannot create children, either. Pull on that thread and see what happens to the cloth. That's why to me no solution seems cut and dry.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545496730057771946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103254.post-1123040329987701982005-08-02T21:38:00.000-06:002005-08-02T21:38:00.000-06:00Ana, you say you keep thinking but you haven't sha...Ana, you say you keep thinking but you haven't shared what the thought is...<BR/><BR/>When Prop. 22 came along and we were asked to make calls, put up signs, etc. it was really hard. I think I captured a small glimpse of what missionaries must feel like going door-to-door. However, once we started doing were asked to do, it was not so hard at all. Although, we are not in the same familial situation that you are.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I am completely and wholly against gay marriage with or without the Church. I'm all for civil unions and giving them the same rights that married couples and enjoy, but marriage is sacred. It was designed with the idea in mind that a man and a woman would marry and create children (a family), something that homosexual relations cannot accomplish. The family, as designed by God, is eternal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com