Rlmorel, since you asked, I’m going to speak frankly, but with all respect to you and your wife.
If you’re having these thoughts/misgivings about attending, I would advise you not to do it. It may be God whispering in your ear. I can tell you from personal experience that sometimes there are spiritual consequences from ignoring what you know you should or should not do when it comes to clear-cut moral issues.
As Christians, we often say that God comes first, followed by family. It’s easy to say, but when it comes right down to it, are we willing to live it?
I don’t think your wife should expect you to do something you believe is wrong. I would never do that to my husband, quite honestly. Maybe it’s time you put your foot down, as spiritual head of the household.
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.