All if not most of your 350+ posts in various threads were devoted to selling gay ‘marriage’ and gay adoption to the membership of CAF. You engaged a number of Catholic posters, arguing that Catholic views are wrong on the purpose of marriage, the morality of homosexual relations, interchangeability of a mother and a father with same sex parents, and its effects on children. Religious defense of traditional marriage and family does not persuade you, but non-religious reasons which were brought up also matter not to you.
Since your great state of Massachusetts was first in line with legalization of gay ’marriage,’ your focus is now on the defeat of DOMA, is it not? You made several repetitions of the list of federal benefits that same sex couples would not be getting unless DOMA is successfully challenged. In other threads on homosexuality, including a recent one that the moderators removed, you enumerated the same list of federal ‘entitlements’ as you did upthread. A poster called it a ‘grabby’ list. It is.
Your more recent posts vigorously argue a specific line of thinking, that heterosexual promiscuity is the same as homosexual promiscuity. Previously, you strongly protested that homosexuals are not monsters, not pedophiles, when a mention of pedophilia is associated with certain (not all) homosexuals. Just like how homosexual activists react when the mention of AIDS is brought up in a discussion – they get livid with the connection of AIDS with homosexuality as through homosexuality and AIDS are completely unrelated.
You say you are just having a conversation about issues in this forum, but you are clearly not here for an exchange of ideas. You wish to change minds, because it bugs the heck out of you that Catholics can be as unchanging (about beliefs and values) as you are about your moral relativity. This is evident from your arguments and information you have revealed about your own situation and background.
Your post 153 was likely talking about your sweet gay brother and his Irish non-American citizen partner. If so, the bottom line of your immediate objections notwithstanding that you and your brother live in the most liberal state in the U.S., are: the federal benefit that bestows citizenship is tied to marital status and that federal income tax benefit conferred on heterosexual married couples do not apply to same sex married couples. The other fed benies affecting estate, retirement, bereavement when a same sex partner dies, matter too but they would not be imminent in your brother’s case.
DOMA should be upheld in every state. Even if your brother’s partner may be an upstanding citizen of his country and resident in the U.S., immigration should not be made as another legal entry point where undesirables can get in for national security purposes, or be another classification for abuse of law by crooks.
In your post #154 which you directed to Elizabeth:
*If your issue is the family unit marriage has little to do w this.
Society is already accepting of alternative families.
Single and gay people can adopt children.
But farther more there is nothing to stop a gay couple from have a surrogate or 2 women from using a sperm bank to have children.
not legalizing civil unions does not but hinder the protection of these children.
Homosexuals couples do not need civil unions in order to have children. The legal protection of the children is at stake though by not allowing them the rights of any other family.*
you sound certain where society is headed. You seem to believe that Catholic opinion is in the minority, so what are you hoping to accomplish at CAF? To seek and lead the ungrounded Catholics away? To force your moral relativity on Catholics?
John correctly assessed in his post:
*Earlier in this thread you stated you didn’t want to really change minds on this topic, yet it now seems you are. Well, rest assured, the minds of Catholics who adhere to a moral code will never be persuaded by your moral relativity. That moral relativity is becoming more and more shrill as you post and it really represents nothing more than moral vacuity. *