[sinkspur]

What do you think Mother Teresa would do? I think she would allow the partner and offer the saving grace of Christ?

It doesn't have to be one or the other, Tony.

[Antoninus]

I think she would allow the partner and offer the saving grace of Christ?

It would depend on whether the partner was repentant or not, wouldn't it? If he was not, my guess is that Mother would not have allowed it. For sure, the Jesuits I was referring guarded their neophytes zealously against those who would try to snatch away their nascent faith. And many of them are now Saints of the Catholic Church.

[Qwinn]

Still interested in a response to my last post.

BTW, for the record, since I refuse to continue validating the "sexual preference as identity" bit, I will no longer refer to people who like gay sex as "gay" or "homosexual".

To repeat my question: In a case where the family IS visiting the patient-who-likes-gay-sex, and they object to the presence of the patient's partner-who-likes-gay-sex, should the partner be admitted despite the family's objections?

You've tried to frame this as a case where the patient-who-lies-sex is all alone outside their partner. What about when the family IS there for them? And what if the family is there trying to get them to repent? Do you believe the family should have no right to deny the partner admittance?

Because that's what I -really- think is being fought over here.

Qwinn