I like what you wrote. It occurred to me to ask as I read:
1. You said you have children...how many?
2. How many boys? How many girls?
3. You mentioned the church changed in the sixties. I assume you are talking about the Catholic Church, are you a
Catholic?
4. If you are a Catholic and had less than eight children, there is a good chance you practiced some kind of birth control or you had your reproductive organs removed by doctor’s decision, which was it or did you have more than eight children? If so, are any gay? Did they tell you or do you just suspect? Are any single? Why?
5. If you are Catholic and practiced birth control, you are outside the communion of the church and its teachings. According to our doctrine, you are in the same situation as the homosexual who is Catholic.
6. Faced with this, only you can tell us if you have sinned in the eyes of the church. If you have, then in the eyes of the Church you have more important things to worry about than homosexuals. Our church would counsel YOU to concentrate on your own sins and pray for intercession and forgiveness so that one day you may be allowed to re-enter full communion with your faith...or if truth be known, the Church does have grounds to ask you to leave for possibly preventing the birth of a soul which to us is on a par with abortion.
Tough love...for ALL of us.
Cheers,
J
Although personal I will let you know the following:
1. 2. Five children with four boys. Three married, two with children, third one trying for children but married only awhile ago. Fourth son is probably getting engaged right as we speak. Youngest daughter was in love but had heart broken. She is playing the field but wants nothing more than find the right man and have lots of kids.
3. I happen to be a lapsed Catholic. I do love the Church and loved growing up in Catholic schools for 12 years. I have taken time to read a lot of the theology and the more I read the more perfect the Church sounds—yes, I know there is corruption but all bureaucracies with humans have it.
4. I married a non Catholic so he was the one who decided to end reproduction, although I would have had more children. We were married in the Church, though, and we raised our children Catholic. I refused to take the pill—I thought it unnatural and toxic—not that I agreed with the Church at that time. Wouldn’t allow surgery either. Thought that was unnatural also—long before I studied any Aristotle or Thomism.
5. I do not worry about homosexuals. That is a ridiculous statement. I have compassion for them because I understand that they have a heavy cross to bear. Many of them probably had a very sad, early childhood, and, for me, that is extremely upsetting. (Saw Truman recently, made me cry.) Children are so vulnerable and such a precious gift from God. I think that damaging children in their early years is the most horrendous sin on earth. (I truly think Jesus thinks the same thing.)
6. Guaranteed that everyone is a sinner, so I am no exception. But I do look to my soul as all people do when they get closer to death and I am probably going to eventually join the Church again when I get a permanent residence. Then I plan to become very active in the Church and preach fire and brimstone to my kids!!! (Just kidding on that last part—they would commit me).