Why should any good Catholic succumb to acting against his conscience?
Posted on 06/16/2017 8:55:05 AM PDT by ebb tide
No, I don't. I'm not Bill Clinton.
If a Catholic baker is requested to bake a wedding cake for "Jack and John" or "Jill and Jane"; no questions need to be asked.
How will the Catholic baker know not to bake them a cake?
Do you think Catholic bakers just bake cakes for Catholics?
If so, I doubt your sanity.
If your daughter comes home from college with her live-in boy friend, will you let them sleep in the same room?
What about the same John and Jane presenting themselves for Holy Communion in a neighboring parish? Do you expect to the priest to demand marriage certificates from each communicant beforehand?
I think those Catholics believe the Church actually started in 1960.
What do you think the martyrs would think of your temporal concerns? I am not saying that we all have the courage of the martyrs, but, reality is, Catholics are called to make sacrifices for Christ.
No.
"If your daughter comes home from college with her live-in boy friend, will you let them sleep in the same room?"
No.
"What about the same John and Jane presenting themselves for Holy Communion in a neighboring parish? Do you expect to the priest to demand marriage certificates from each communicant beforehand?"
No.
I believe it would be very presumptuous of me to tell a baker (or florist, wedding photographer, hotelier, banquet room proprietor, etc.) that he must deny products and services to customers if he knows they will be used in support of an invalid wedding.
Given the current climate such a business owner would almost certainly be sued putting his business, his family, and his employees in financial jeopardy.
Personally I believe that the Catholic Church has failed its members with regard to these issues. When pharmacists were required to sell morning after pills or lose their jobs the Catholic Church should have organized mass protests in support of Catholic pharmacists. Instead, individual pharmacists were left to face the legal and political consequences on their own. Similar incidents are happening with regard to bakers, florists, photographers, etc. The Church only seems to care when the current unconstitutional nonsense directly impacts Catholic institutions, but even then only with tepid opposition.
Some may find it very easy to ask others to be martyrs at a time when they lack even the support of the Church. I don't.
I never said (nor has the Church ever said) making sacrifices for Christ would be easy. That doesn't change the FACT that we are all called to do so. You shouldn't be wagging your fingers at those who are merely speaking the Truth.
Why should any good Catholic succumb to acting against his conscience?
No kidding?
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