gay wedding

[Lapey]

Absolutely. You must attend to support your son or you will regret it. I realize that I am the voice of dissent here, but I’m also probably the only one commenting here with a gay son. For most, this is merely a hypothetical situation, in which they have the luxury of considering the situation without actually having to deal with any real life consequences. Please do not listen to them. You will only damage your relationship with your son if you are not there to support him.

The main reason you should not attend, to “support your son”… A Catholic cannot support a grave and intrinsically evil act. This would be like accompanying your daughter to the abortion clinic and celebrating with all of the family. It just makes no sense.

To show support for the evil you endorse the act and therefore cement the thought that it is right in the conscience. If this is the state of life he chooses and remains in that state, then you run the risk of losing the relationship for eternity; which would you rather? The temporary life here on earth, or the eternal life with God? I’ll choose the later and avoid endorsing evil.

 

[Lapey]

Jesus dined with sinners.
He never said anything about staying away from them.
Sorry, we disagree.

Bookcat is right and you disagree. That makes you wrong. Jesus dined with sinners and brought Matthew, the tax collector, out of his sin and made an Apostle out of him. Jesus met the woman at the well and called out her sins of adultery. Every story in Scripture where Jesus met sinners, those people were changed because of Jesus standing on truth. The Pharisees remained in their sin by ignoring truth and resisting change.

If we go along with evil, those who live in that evil will not see the need to change. If you endorse what is evil by taking part in it you give permission.

What did Jesus tell the tax collector? Go and make right all your wrongs, pay back what you have stolen and change your ways; “make your paths straight.”

It takes much more courage to be the voice of truth, but it is what is required; anything less encourages error.

 

[Lapey]

You know, my stepdaughter is gay so I can relate. She knows how we feel about the whole thing which is that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, but because we love her unconditionally we would attend.

Actually that would be an example of conditional love. If there were unconditional love between you two you would understand that speaking the truth by your actions can help her and acting contrary to truth by attending you would lead her away from salvation.

Unconditional love would be that you love her so much you are not willing to jeopardize truth for her feelings. Therefore her soul would be helped towards salvation.

 

[Lapey]

Well if your touchstone is not the ultimate salvation of souls, you don’t understand anything you wrote above.

How does one save souls by endorsing grave evil? Did I miss that one in Canon Law class??? I don’t think so. Truth is what this canon is about; Canon 1752, “the supreme law of the Church, the salvation of souls.”