[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Well said.

[Solamente]

Man, you are certainly lathered up, and I don't mean any insult.

That said, you are free to not do any of those things, and perhaps persuede your family, friends, or anyone else given your belief system to follow suit.

Make sure the energy you spend trying to change people who will probably not change, despite your best efforts, to that of maintaining your own.

In my experience, holding on to a rigid belief system that allows no correction, is doomed. Again, no offense intended.

[BlessedBeGod]

BUMP!!!

[Alberta's Child]

Here in the United States, the move by Massachusetts’ Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage without so much as a vote by that state’s legislature, much less its citizens, has resulted in making the adoption agency practices of the Catholic Church illegal. That being the case, the Church was forced to end providing such services altogether, rather than compromise their faith.

This is not exactly correct. The Catholic Church in Massachusetts exposed itself to this kind of nonsense when it first arranged to have its "adoption agency" services carried out through an organization called Catholic Charities. Despite its name, Catholic Charities really isn't a religious organization at all -- which means that the secularization of the Catholic Church in this case was basically self-inflicted.

[combat_boots]

All within the space of one generation.

Come quickly, Lord Jesus, Lion of Judah, Lamb and Only Son of God. Amen.

[A. Pole]

After the infamous Separation of Church and State was copied from Soviet Constitution the other things will follow as well.