I would ask all of you disparaging Father Phleger to try and answer the question of what you would do if faced with a similar situation? What if your son came home one day and announced that he was doing something that was completely opposed to everything you stood for and believed in? Would you be as supportive of his decision as Father Pfleger has been? Or would you boot him out on his ass and tell him never to darken your door again? Be honest now.
I "booted him out on his ass and told him never to darken my doorstep again."
Does that answer your question?
Nice try.
But this is not just any type of behaviour that his father might disapprove of. It is the very basis of his fathers life long protest however immaturely and his son is teaching him a lesson about responsibility and protest.
Hopefully his father is able to grow up and see that his life has been misused except for raising this great son.
You always suport family. ALWAYS.
That Father Pfleger did so was to meet the minumum standards of humanity.
If one of them turns out to be a Jeffrey Dahmer or a Scott Peterson, then it is your duty to take care of him in another sense, and not burden the State.
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