Gay Pride Month

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Mary67 said:
I would appear to approve of gay pride if I bought the shirt and had to carry the bag around. Thoughts?
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You don’t have to take a bag. I refuse bags. Has nothing to do with gay pride month, I just don’t want to accumulate them or throw them away. There’s usually a reusable bag in my car if I absolutely think I will need a bag to carry my goods.
 
Psalm30 said:
. But I don’t know what the Church says specifically about this. @acanonlawyer could tell you the Church’s official teaching.
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I would be hard pressed to find a connection between this specific scenario (whether or not it is permissable to carry an item, given to me without my asking for it, that has an advertisement for something I consider to be an affront to the Faith) and something in canon law.

Other than that, I would think that the possibility of scandal has to be considered and also the chance of people thinking that I support something which I, in fact, do not (even if they are not scandalized (led into sin or error) by my action).

I think the OP acted appropriately. In other words, I would probably do the same thing.

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The hotel does flat rate rooms, so, people will room share to reduce prices. This means that there are teens and adults who don’t have their own room.
 
Mary67 said:
I didn’t want to walk around with that bag so I left without buying the shirt.
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I would not have bought the shirt either or asked to not have a bag. Either way I think what you did was right.
TheLittleLady said:
So, one month businesses recognize those who carry the HUGE cross of “gayness”. My advice, be Simon the Cyrene and help others carry their crosses.
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While I agree that there are many that do carry this as a huge cross and definitely need our prayers and our love and help, there is also a much larger underlying current that is encouraging homosexuality as just another sexual/relational option. Those who normally would have no same sex attraction are being told there is nothing wrong with homosexual acts and are encouraged to try it. As Christians, homosexual activity should not in any way be supported or encouraged. That would be why I would not carrying that bag as the OP also chose not to do.
VanitasVanitatum said:
The employees are going to be the ones dealing with it and if you bring the manager or something then you’re not going to look good.
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There were a lot of Christians, and martyrs specifically, in the past who chose not to look good but rather do what is right.
 
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Agree. The one thing that could happen is that a person working the register, who has been told that many people are bigoted, will have a bit more evidence that is true.

Romans chapter 12 talks about how to deal with people who are evil.

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I am not going to take a gay pride bag to prove to some cashier that Christians aren’t bigots. One can refuse the bag without being unpleasant about it and giving a lecture. Maybe I am misreading you but it sounds like you are saying take the bag so that you don’t look bad. I don’t think that is the only, or the best, option. Nor do I think someone who thinks not accepting a gay pride bag is terribly bigoted was ever going to think highly of Christians anyways.

If one really wanted to protest the bag as opposed to simply not be forced to carry the message, one can call the company customer service line and explain the issue.
 
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Gotcha. I thought you were saying to take the bag to avoid being looked down on.
 
Not at all, I am saying that one can skip both the bag and the lecture. One way to live peacefully with all men (Romans is stuck on PLAY in my head today).
 
TheLittleLady said:
THAT is exactly my point.

It is so easy to say “I don’t need a bag. Thank you and have a great day!”
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This was also my point, along with my point that simply walking out of the store without buying the shirt made absolutely no impression on anyone in regard to views on gay pride.
 
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MagdalenaRita said:
There were a lot of Christians, and martyrs specifically, in the past who chose not to look good but rather do what is right.
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They had dignity which is lacking when you go complain to management about a bag.
 
VanitasVanitatum said:
They had dignity which is lacking when you go complain to management about a bag.
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Yes, I agree we do not always have to complain to management but just refuse to take the bag.

The reason for my comment was it seems we have become over concerned about looking bad or offending someone rather than doing what is right, (myself included).
 
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Perhaps because business want you to focus on it? That’s their goal gay pride.

When they have 3rd-world slave labor pride month, I’ll return that bag too. Fair?
 
I have peole refuse bags all the time.

It has gotten to the point that I now ask, “would you like a bag?”
 
To your point, yes if you want to take a stand on that. It gets subjective, since what some oppose others do not, and the reality if most people are not aware or clued in to who makes Nordstrom’s clothing, for example. They are aware that Nordstrom promotes a pro-gay agenda the secind they enter the store. I walked through Nordstroms last friday to get to a restaurant in the mall we like and it felt like I was wading through a bag of skittles. Taste the rainbow, indeed.
 
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