Attending Get-Together for Homosexual Couple

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If they were just having a get together at their home, I might consider going. But it seems this reception is a celebration of their ‘marriage.’ I couldn’t, in all good conscience, go to that. I could not put their relationship or my friendship with them before my love and obedience to God and his word.
 
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That’s the odd thing. The ones who behave like stereotypical ‘social justice’ warriors are so oblivious to their own bigotry and somehow they being conformed to political trends are justified in spewing out venom. I suppose the Scriptural revisionists, as some apologists on the main Catholic Answers site have called them, also revised other parts of the Bible.
What’s more astounding is there are people who actually liked that ad hominem-laced and historically inaccurate reply.
 
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thanks for your reply; it makes a lot of sense to me
 
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this is a difficult topic that has come up several times for me.
My band director and I are very close. It just so happens that he is a gay man who is engaged to his fiancé and they plan to get married soon. My band director is the sweetest and kindest person I have ever met and you just can’t help but love(platonically) the man. I would attend his wedding in a heartbeat. But that’s just me and my opinion. I don’t have to approve of the marriage but he is still a dear friend of mine and I wouldn’t dream of cutting ties with him. I wouldn’t go to support the marrragie but I would go to support him. Studies have shown that most people of different sexualities have had a very bad childhood and/or has had a traumatizing experience that never healed. As a Christian I don’t feel that it’s right to turn my back on him because I know that he desperately needs Christ in his life and If don’t help him along the way on the path to Christ then who will?
This is a very tricky situation but do whatever you think that god would be proud of.
 
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i don’t know how many times i have to say it;

it is NOT A WEDDING

it is a party

it s OK to attend
 
There is only so many ways - to personally ‘ disapprove ‘
of daily hell bound, against the Holy Church, committing - sin.

We’re talking graven sin -
Sin - that will send people to hell -
Not as bad maybe as a murderer- who keeps commiting that act -
Or a married person - with the adulterous other - visiting you.

No way.

I do - draw a line -
 
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I think you need to follow your heart on this matter. If you are not comfortable going, then don’t.
Respect both your mother’s decision and your father’s decision (assuming they are different).

I don’t think there is one “Catholic” view on the matter. My personal opinion is that as long as I myself am not going to be led into a sin, I don’t go around shunning people because their choices in life are not what is approved by the Church. If I were to avoid gay couples, I would also have to avoid
  • people who were living with their heterosexual partners
  • people who were divorced and remarried (in most cases there’s no way I could possibly know all their personal details of whether they got an annulment or even needed an annulment, so I’d just have to avoid them)
  • people who were openly engaging in sex outside marriage (i.e. going home with their girlfriend or boyfriend at the end of the night)
  • people who I saw, or had good reason to believe were, cheating on their spouses
  • people who I saw, or had good reason to believe were, using drugs or drinking too much
I could add many other “sins” to this list. Pretty soon I would be socializing with almost no one.

Jesus obviously didn’t approve of prostitution, but he went to dinner with prostitutes, and he didn’t spend the meal telling them they were horrible sinners and deserved to be punished, either.

This is my personal opinion. I am not interested in trying to convince anyone else. I respect the decisions of others and I expect them to respect mine.
 
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Well, he’s your dad’s friend, not yours, right?

Do you like the guy? If so, go. If not, don’t.
 
Do not go. Since your dad is a devout catholic, if you tell him that you struggled with trying to do the moral thing in this matter, I think he will likely understand and respect you for that decision. Mention that, by attending a celebration of an event that the Church says under no circumstances can be approved, your presence there would be giving the appearance of approval. Hopefullly, if you do this, your dad may have a similar response. If I had a friend in this situation, there is no way on Earth that he would expect that I would attend such an event.
 
If it’s officially a reception for their “wedding”, I don’t think I would attend, but if it’s just a party welcoming them back to town, of course, I would want to go and spend time with them.
 
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