My wife is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and my respect for her is unmatched. And I have no doubt if I talked to her about it, she would listen to me and let me do what I thought I would need to do.
And she is no liberal...she is a believer in being prepared, not depending on others, frugality, responsibility, but there are some things that simply don’t matter to her, or matter much more to me than to her.
I don’t watch television at all, I stopped around the mid-Nineties, and apart from some sporting events, it is excruciating to me to even be seated near a television.
My wife watches television, so it is often on when I walk by, and I sometimes cannot help but growl at something I see.
She often works from home, and has the television on all the time...it doesn’t bother her at all, though it would drive me crazy. Well, one morning I walked by and she had the Today Show on, and they were talking about the book where the guy called Reagan an “amiable dunce”. And every time I walked by, they were still talking about it until I left to go to work.
Next day, same thing
On the third day, I was walking by, and she had it on again, and three days in a row, they were talking about the exact same thing, and I growled loudly “Good God. These people are deranged...I don’t understand how you can watch those mental midgets!” or something like that.
My wife stood up and calmly put her foot down: “I don’t comment or care about what you watch, write, or do, that is your own business as long as you don’t bring angst to our relationship or family, and I expect you to extend me the same courtesy.”
Well, she was right. I live in New England, and she has given me free reign to take part in any political thing I want, she lets me take off and drive down to Washington for demonstrations or to visit with the FR DC Chapter people and Freep outside Walter Reed/Bethesda/Olney, doesn’t say a word and gives me her encouragement and approval. What could I say?
She is entitled to that, and she is right. I can still think the liberals on television are a bunch of self-centered, imbecilic, anti-American, freedom-hating, tyrant-loving morons, but...I keep it to myself.
I think everything you described is perfectly reasonable, and as I said, I meant no disrespect to your wife.
All I’m saying is that, if you have misgivings about attending a homo wedding and your wife doesn’t, you shouldn’t be guilted into it. By anyone.
I believe it’s a very serious issue. God created marriage as a sacrament. Homo “weddings” are an open, defiant poke in His eye.
They take something He called detestable, which involves deviants messing with each other’s filthy anal areas, and masquerade it as a holy union. I don’t blame you for having grave misgivings about attending.
“My wife is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and my respect for her is unmatched. And I have no doubt if I talked to her about it, she would listen to me and let me do what I thought I would need to do.”
That is a most excellent post. Spoken from the trenches of real life.
Thank you.
Is she a Christian? IOW, is she open to hearing from God’s own Word why we are not to allow ourselves to be used into even giving the appearance of condoning sin? The only way to show love to homosexuals is to, in agape love, show them their error-and the mercy and forgiveness which God avails to all of us sinners in our repentance. A sodomite union is hardly the place to show that love, as they want you there to help celebrate and memorialise their sin.