Posted on 06/28/2013 5:39:09 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
My sister emailed me to lay off Obama and "gays" on Facebook or she would have to block me. I saved her the trouble and unfriended her.
It breaks my heart but at this point I have no desire to even talk to her or her family. Has anyone else had to deal with this?
That stinks. You can come have Thanksgiving with us. Only one Democrat in the family, and she married into it. She knows to just keep quiet.
Religion is another harsh frontier with friends and family. A former friend of mine-an irreligious fellow-decided that my fundamentalist ways needed enlightening. He conned his liberal ELCA Lutheran wife into having a "religious discussion" with me. What neither one of them knew was that at the time I was teaching formation classes at my church and was drawing heavily on Luther's Large Catechism. In fact, at the time I had it pretty well memorized. I had also recently read the Book of Concord and taken notes. So imagine her astounded surprise when I started contradicting her pro-abort, pro-gay, lukewarm Christless theism with quotes from Luther and the BoC, complete with page referneces. I let her talk long enough to convince herself that she had won me over first, of course. It was delicious fun. I never saw my friend's wife again after that day...she avoided me like ebola.
I would think that in honor of your mother, politics would never come up at her party.
Not one of them would EVER talk to me about politics... yet they love to call when I am not there and beat her up about how she votes.
Real creeps (but, typical Liberals)!
Since we don't do facebook, we don't have the issues you do with family members. But the only advice I can give is to keep on loving them and refrain from getting on politics when you have family events.
No. I am able to maintain good relations with kin who think conservatives are evil. Sometimes it is a challenge but I would never sever ties solely over political differences.
Two lib relatives (in-laws) said that I was a racist because I stated that bho was elected through vote fraud.
I merely showed them that morning’s headlines from the local paper that read that people had been indicted for voting multiple times (later convicted).
When I saw one of the lib relatives later, we never mentioned the incident.
The other lib relative went off on a rampage and sent us a message that questioned our faith and parenting. When we told that relative’s children (our grown nieces and nephews) about the message, the relative sent an apology message. We haven’t been in contact with that relative since then.
I’m from a mixed political extended family. Blood’s thicker than politics with us. It’s how we were raised. If someone disowned a family member due to politics it would be considered unacceptable across the board with all wings. It’s just how it is here.
My dad, a union hack who thinks Obama is the savior of the world, no longer speaks to me. I’m an only child, so I guess MSNBC is his family now, not me.
Can’t say I care very much. I live 2 hours away from him but I got tired of calling him weekly to listen to him pontificate about how eeeeeeeeevil rich Republicans are. My daughter is 6 & he has chosen now to miss out on her life as well as mine. Hope he’s happy.
I am the black sheep of the family. We have agreed to not discuss politics when we get together. I’m happy to say that since my older sister started seeing a conservative 7 years ago, her views have changed drastically for the better, so I finally have one on my side.....
Thank you. I also do not allow the term, “gay” in my home.
Control the language, control the culture.
Agree, I think it’s important to show love to everyone. There is no reason to bring up issues of contention when you know it will just cause strife. Why would you purposely confront someone, it doesn’t help!
However, if someone brings up issues (politics/abortion/homosexuality) then I will address it wholeheartedly. That’s why I love FB. I am currently (calmly) discussing an issue with a far-away cousin and I can tell that it is making him think about his viewpoint. If it doesn’t, at least the seeds were planted. And along the way, others are seeing our conversation. But he brought up the controversial issue, not me.
What JimRed said in post 42.
This same family member says nothing about 0's wars, though. Their hypocrisy is sickening.
I tend to be skeptical of many conspiracy theories. I really believe that Jerry Brown really believes his stupid waste of money for a bullet train will help the economy. While it is a stupid waste his sole purpose in supporting the train is not to just give money to the unions. It is a great side benifit but not the sole purpose. This has caused some family member to consider me to far left.
God bless you as you deal with this situation. I always wondered how I would cope if that happened in my family. As it is, my two oldest children who were raised in a Christian home no longer go to Church and one recently told me he is an agnostic. It breaks my heart and all we can do as parents is love and pray for them.
Great story! Nothing like the truth followed by facts to flummox the opposition! Well done...and once again proves the superiority of facts over “feelings”....love it.....
The Facebook solution is to create a “political” group of your friends, and include only those friends in the group that you want to see your political posts.
This type of thing has divided families in the United States since the beginning. Read this snip from Wiki about Ben Franklin and his son William:
Illegitimate son William
William FranklinIn 1730, at the age of 24, Franklin publicly acknowledged an illegitimate son named William, and raised him in his household. His mother’s identity is not known.[18] He was educated in Philadelphia.
Beginning at about age 30, William studied law in London in the early 1760s. He fathered an illegitimate son, William Temple Franklin, born February 22, 1762. The boy’s mother was never identified, and he was placed in foster care. Franklin later that year married Elizabeth Downes, daughter of a planter from Barbados. After William passed the bar, his father helped him gain an appointment in 1763 as the last Royal Governor of New Jersey.
A Loyalist, William and his father eventually broke relations over their differences about the American Revolutionary War. The elder Franklin could never accept William’s position. Deposed in 1776 by the revolutionary government of New Jersey and imprisoned for a time, the younger Franklin went to New York in 1782, which was still occupied by British troops. He became leader of the Board of Associated Loyalists—a quasi-military organization, headquartered in New York City. They initiated guerrilla forays into New Jersey, southern Connecticut, and New York counties north of the city.[19] When British troops evacuated from New York, William Franklin left with them and sailed to England. He settled in London, never to return to North America.
In the preliminary peace talks in 1782 with Britain, “...Benjamin Franklin insisted that loyalists who had borne arms against the United States would be excluded from this plea (that they be given a general pardon). He was undoubtedly thinking of William Franklin.”[20]
William Temple Franklin, painted by John Trumbull (1790-1791).Benjamin Franklin found out about Temple (as he called him), his only patrilineal grandson, on his second mission to England. He got to know the boy and became fond of him, arranging for his education. He never told his wife Deborah about him.[21] Franklin gained custody and brought Temple with him upon return to Philadelphia in 1775. Deborah had died the year before. Franklin brought up Temple within his household.
Beginning at age 16, Temple Franklin served as secretary to his grandfather during his mission to Paris during the Revolutionary War. Although he returned to the United States with his grandfather in the 1780s, he could not find an appointment. He returned to Europe, living for a time in England and then in France. He died in Paris in 1823 and was buried in Père-Lachaise Cemetery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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