Question on gift giving to homosexual couples

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What are your thoughts when it comes to providing gifts for homosexual couples? I’m not talking about wedding gifts (I steer clear of any association within that sphere), but more along the lines of Christmas gifts. Say a woman bought two fleece robes, one for herself, and the other for her “wife” as Christmas gifts. And lets say she got them embroidered with their pet names for each other (e.g. babe, honey bunny, darling… you get the picture). My question is, do you supply this women with these gifts, or not? I’m inclined to say that you shouldn’t, based on the wording on the robes indicting their relationship status, but I’d love to here others thoughts on the matter. 🙂
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I sell artisan hand made items. In this economy, I am thankful for customers. Taking the time to screen each of them to make sure there are no sinners would eat up all of my time.

And, yes, I would also bake them a cake if I were a baker.
 
If it’s not pornographic/ in horrible taste (like a dirty word), then I wouldn’t have a problem with it.

90 percent of the time you have no idea who the gift is for (could be a family in-joke or even a nickname), and the 10 percent of the time you do know, it’s none of your business.

It might even be for her male husband who likes wearing ladies’ clothes. I’ve known women who were married to such men.
 
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roamingitalian said:
What are your thoughts when it comes to providing gifts for homosexual couples?
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What are your thoughts when it comes to giving gifts to anyone? In Matthew 25:31-46, is our treatment of some different from the treatment of others? Did Christ not say how we treat ALL others is indicative of how we treat him?

Rejoice in the Lord Always!
 
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I should have clarified - this would be in the case of selling her the robes.
 
Thanks for the replies, everyone! I know we are suppose to be charitable to all, but my only concern when it comes to providing “couple-ly” gifts to homosexual couples is to avoid causing scandal to others. To me, to provide such gifts could send the wrong message in a way that would imply that I was fine with their relationship. But again, this is only if I know 100%, without a shadow of doubt, that it is for a homosexual couple. Just my two cents on the subject.👍
 
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only concern when it comes to providing “couple-ly” gifts to homosexual couples is to avoid causing scandal to others
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My wife went out with her best friend…who is also her sister in law.
They bought negligee.

I am glad the vendor did not judge them with insufficient information.
 
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Are you also checking out the people who purchase robes for heterosexual couples? Do you make sure they’re married and not simply living together? Do you make sure this is their first marriage? Jesus was pretty clear that a second marriage constitutes adultery and you wouldn’t want to be supporting that, would you?
 
And I agree with not providing robes to adulterous heterosexual couples as well. Again, if I know beyond doubt, I would refrain from going through with the transaction.
 
I personally would have no problem giving any gift to a homosexual couple whatsoever. Well, as long as it wasn’t something I wouldn’t buy like porn, drugs, … you get the idea.

The only thing I would object to is making some form of artistic expression that demands I glorify something questionable. Not because they shouldn’t have it, but because I don’t want to make it. shrugs
 
well, as others have touched on, I think in the vast majority of cases,you probably don’t know all those details, but even if you do, this would probably be quite remote material cooperation at worst, you are simply trying to sell your product to make a living
 
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My wife went out with her best friend…who is also her sister in law.
They bought negligee.
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Yeah. I lived with two or three girls in college who would make dumb jokes about being married to each other, sometimes giving each other big cheesy hugs or whatever. Two of them had dumb married-couple nicknames for each other. I can totally see these two going out to the mall and buying some kind of matching clothing item with the stupid nicknames.

All of these girls were definitely heterosexual. I know this because I was living with them. One of them was married to a Green Beret who was stationed elsewhere at the time, and the rest of them were dating men.
 
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i think you should go ahead and sell them happily!

should they (in the future) wish to convert to Catholicism and live chastely then, would they not be more likely to with remembering that catholic/christian people treated them kindly and non-judgmentally?

we are all sinners, but we can all be kind and good to each others, friends and enemies!

also, remember that St. Augustine was a great sinner, and at a point in his life, simply was not ready to hear the Christian message or change his behavior at all! and now he is a great saint!
 
It is not a sin to sell bathrobes or custom embroidery. The identity of the customer is irrelevant to the moral analysis.
 
I feel this topic got blown way out of context from what my original question actually was. But since we’re divided, here’s my outlook: True charity is letting the person know that they’re in very, very grave sin. True charity is calling the person out in order TO save them from eternal damnation. We are suppose to be a sign of contradiction in this world, wasn’t Christ a sign of contradiction Himself? You can call them out in a loving and gentle way, but to say nothing and affirm them in their sin is not what it means to be a soldier of Christ. Rise up and take a stand, even if the whole world is against you. Avoid being a fence sitter. We all know what God said He’d do with fence sitters.
 
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