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AnastasiaRomano
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I’ve seen a few people posting that one on Facebook lately. I’ve also seen this one, a quote from Archbishop Sheen:
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3DOCTORS
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I like both of those. The Rick Warren one I “liked” when someone else posted it on my Facebook.
Bishop Sheen’s is comforting to me. It reassures me that this “tolerance” stuff isn’t brand new, even if it does seem to be getting a lot more intense in this day and age.
Facebook evangelization - if you really want to do it and have the intestinal fortitude and nerves of steel it takes, more power to you.
Right now I’m thinking more along the lines of shake the pink-and-red-equals-signs’ dust off my feet as a testimony against those who were so proudly displaying them.
Each person has to make that call for herself or himself. There’s no denying there were some positives that Facebook brought me, more in the early days of being on it. But the balance is reaching the tipping point. I fear it is reaching the tipping point on the marriage issue in society at large. Abortion almost seems easier to deal with than that one, weirdly enough.
Bishop Sheen’s is comforting to me. It reassures me that this “tolerance” stuff isn’t brand new, even if it does seem to be getting a lot more intense in this day and age.
Facebook evangelization - if you really want to do it and have the intestinal fortitude and nerves of steel it takes, more power to you.
Right now I’m thinking more along the lines of shake the pink-and-red-equals-signs’ dust off my feet as a testimony against those who were so proudly displaying them.
Each person has to make that call for herself or himself. There’s no denying there were some positives that Facebook brought me, more in the early days of being on it. But the balance is reaching the tipping point. I fear it is reaching the tipping point on the marriage issue in society at large. Abortion almost seems easier to deal with than that one, weirdly enough.
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BlueEyedLady
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No less stupid and tacky than forcing your views by showing them no matter where someone looks on Youtube. Honestly, I think whoever chose red for the equality color was a blithering idiot, because that color just gets people wound up and uptight anyway.
Oh please, Christians post pictures of Jesus and Bible quotes, is that tacky too?I’m not against anti-gay marriage people using their own protest symbol (one of my friends is using a gold cross photo with a line about marriage being defined by someone higher than the government) but politicizing wedding photos? Those pictures of all your friends and family and you in your formal wear joining your life to someone and combining families? You don’t think that’s maybe something that should just be left to admire for what it is?
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Lochias
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Difference being, we don’t emblazon them in bright, bright red, with the express purpose of making them IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS unless you just avoid Facebook.
I’m not against anti-gay marriage people using their own protest symbol (one of my friends is using a gold cross photo with a line about marriage being defined by someone higher than the government) but politicizing wedding photos? Those pictures of all your friends and family and you in your formal wear joining your life to someone and combining families? You don’t think that’s maybe something that should just be left to admire for what it is?
Moronic.
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Soren_Itenu
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You know you can go to the user’s page and unsubscribe from that person’s updates. You’ll still be on their friends’ list, but they’ll be none the wiser that you’re no longer seeing their godless propaganda.
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Lochias
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It’s funny. I presented a couple of the common arguments to people who made statements like “I can NOT possibly see how people don’t want to allow gay marriage”, level tone, just presented the facts, and moved on.
I got a message later from one of my close friends (and staunch supporter of the gay agenda, unfortunately) that said: “A rant like that is a little out of character for you. Glad we’re still friends anyways!”
A “rant”? Really? Someone upstream said that this whole thing is less “live and let live” and more “endorse or be punished.”
I can’t help but agree.
I got a message later from one of my close friends (and staunch supporter of the gay agenda, unfortunately) that said: “A rant like that is a little out of character for you. Glad we’re still friends anyways!”
A “rant”? Really? Someone upstream said that this whole thing is less “live and let live” and more “endorse or be punished.”
I can’t help but agree.
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WildCatholic
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Thank you. I live in an area that is generally conservative politically. Of course most of my friends put up things about not wanting gay marriage. In fact a former friend of mine even talked about how Gay marriage is against the Catholic Church, and he hasn’t been to church in years (not that i’m dissing him, I actually messaged him if he was interested in going… no reply yet). Anyway, I think a lot of people do this so they can feel good about themselves. I mean even my “catholic” friends who are against the church on Birth Control are against gay marriage.
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Frank_Drebin
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Not to mention, we’re correct, and gay-shammarriage proponents are wrong, and doing Satan’s work.
Otherwise, it is exactly the same.
Personally, I don’t use facebook for anything.
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Frank_Drebin
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Logic is a rant and theological virtues are hateful vices to immature, ignorant, no-standards having secularists.
No offense to your friend of course; I sure he is a lovely person
I have people that I call friends that are some of the most foolish, ignorant people in the history of the world.**It should be noted they changed AFTER we became friends…
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Lochias
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She, not he.Logic is a rant and theological virtues are hateful vices to immature, ignorant, no-standards having secularists.
No offense to your friend of course; I sure he is a lovely person
*It should be noted they changed AFTER we became friends…
And, yup. I don’t think this friend is foolish or ignorant, though; she’s simply misguided. She is highly intelligent and caring, and possessed of a supremely generous heart and soul; unfortunately, that has recently translated into her agreeing to surrogate a child for a gay couple in California. 
I am rather hurt that, while she knows I am devoutly Catholic and can not condone such actions, I have never said anything overtly about it, and my explanation on FB was in turn labeled a “rant.” She is well and truly indoctrinated, and it hurts to see it.
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3DOCTORS
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But this red square shows up even if you, say, subscribe to feeds from a site you like, in all the comments. It makes me so fed up to see it.You know you can go to the user’s page and unsubscribe from that person’s updates. You’ll still be on their friends’ list, but they’ll be none the wiser that you’re no longer seeing their godless propaganda.
Kicking Facebook to the curb is sounding better and better.
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BlueEyedLady
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Some of my more shall we say enthusiastic friends definitely make their religious and conservative views impossible to miss. So I just ignore it. Part of being an adult is realizing that every day of your life people are going to express views that you absolutely hate. You can either let it affect your life or you can shrug it off.
I personally did not jump on the red equality bandwagon. I’ve been using my Facebook primarily to communicate to family and close friends for the last six months about some pretty severe health issues that have affected my fiance. Since I’ve been in charge of all of the communications I didn’t see now as an appropriate time to engage in armchair activism and risk causing a problem between me and anyone else or between the relatives that are for it and those who are against it.
Honestly, I wouldn’t care if the other side picked neon green flashing icons that draw all of the attention in the world. It’s not the expression of anti-gay marriage views that I find to be in poor taste here, it’s using wedding photos as a political statement. That’s just something that should be able to be cherished for what they are, not used in a divisive, argumentative way.
I guess you could say I have a respect for marriage and wouldn’t take anyone very seriously if they cheapened their wedding photos by using them in that manner to “honor” traditional marriage. It’s just kind of…sleazy. And I would be hurt if FH did anything like that with ours.
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BlueEyedLady
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But this red square shows up even if you, say, subscribe to feeds from a site you like, in all the comments. It makes me so fed up to see it.
I guess that’s your choice, but it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Facebook didn’t do this, each and every person on your friends list chose to do it, and that’s a cause they support. Getting rid of facebook won’t mean that you’re suddenly surrounded by anti-gay marriage activists and that all of your pro-equality friends and family suddenly changed their minds.You might want to try to find more people that you have shared values with instead.
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PatriceA
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Absolutely agree. At least with Facebook, you have the chance to create it the way you would like, not so much with the people you may have to deal with in real life due to job responsibilities or through other of life’s encounters.
You might want to try to find more people that you have shared values with instead.
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3DOCTORS
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I don’t know what alternate universe Facebook there is that gives a person a chance to “create it the way they like” when Facebook itself is not allowing people to post different, opposing versions of the pink and red sign.
Believe it or not, most of my life I’ve been able to have friendships with people of many widely differing outlooks and views, and to keep conversations about our differences civil. Getting a Facebook page for me was the beginning of the end of this scenario. Guess what - I thought (naive little me) that I could share and post views that I believe in as my friends on opposite sides of those issues were doing.
***Ooooooohh, no! *** That was a NO-NO! :tsktsk: I got flamed, e-mailed even and sent links to liberal articles or YouTube videos that I should watch so I would become enlightened and change my antiquated views. Conversations with these friends became awkward. I am a living breathing affront to them. And I never posted anything extremist or hateful. I might’ve posted something like Silent No More Awareness re abortion. I never even posted about the gay issues because I knew it was a delicate issue and I didn’t want to get into a contentious situation with my gay friends.
And duh, I know I won’t be able to avoid the folks with opposing viewpoints. I try to deal with that the best I can. Sometimes I do seek out the company of like-minded people so I can feel free to say what I believe in and be affirmed and not walking on eggshells. Other times I try to “speak the truth in love” with the other sort, or if it just isn’t going well, suggest that we take a break from the heavy stuff and just enjoy each other’s company (and pray that creating goodwill may be a form of evangelization in itself if that’s all that can be achieved on a given day with a given individual).
Believe it or not, most of my life I’ve been able to have friendships with people of many widely differing outlooks and views, and to keep conversations about our differences civil. Getting a Facebook page for me was the beginning of the end of this scenario. Guess what - I thought (naive little me) that I could share and post views that I believe in as my friends on opposite sides of those issues were doing.
***Ooooooohh, no! *** That was a NO-NO! :tsktsk: I got flamed, e-mailed even and sent links to liberal articles or YouTube videos that I should watch so I would become enlightened and change my antiquated views. Conversations with these friends became awkward. I am a living breathing affront to them. And I never posted anything extremist or hateful. I might’ve posted something like Silent No More Awareness re abortion. I never even posted about the gay issues because I knew it was a delicate issue and I didn’t want to get into a contentious situation with my gay friends.
And duh, I know I won’t be able to avoid the folks with opposing viewpoints. I try to deal with that the best I can. Sometimes I do seek out the company of like-minded people so I can feel free to say what I believe in and be affirmed and not walking on eggshells. Other times I try to “speak the truth in love” with the other sort, or if it just isn’t going well, suggest that we take a break from the heavy stuff and just enjoy each other’s company (and pray that creating goodwill may be a form of evangelization in itself if that’s all that can be achieved on a given day with a given individual).
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aloe
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Does anyone else find it amusing that the symbol to support gay marriage is two straight lines?
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Lochias
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After having a metric ton of bright red equal signs shoved in their face like party favors from hell, I can’t say I blame 'em. What’s good for the goose.
Guess I agree here.
Prudent, indeed. I’ll keep your fiance in my prayers; I’ve been doing much the same with a sick sibling.
I honestly think wedding photos are a classier way to go about it, and make sense besides; if you’re going to weigh in on the pro-traditional marriage side, why not use something indicative of that? Better than bright red spots drilling into your vision from all angles.
Noted, and your opinion matters; but the opinions of those using their wedding photos for such are different. No doubt, they’re proud to display them that way.
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BlueEyedLady
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How about we compromise? They can use a cartoon drawing or something of a bride and groom.
I think that a lot of people would think like I do that using wedding photos like that is disrespecting marriage, and if anti gay marriage people come off as disrespectful of marriage then what good is their protest?
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Soren_Itenu
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Just got back on Facebook after 40 days of none of it for Lent…I just wanna hang my head in shame and frustration. I’m blocking anyone who has that pink equal sign graphic for their profile picture. I didn’t miss Facebook during my Lenten contemplation, and being back is like culture shock or something. It’s like stepping onto another planet, even. I’m not sure if my account will last. I use it professionally, so I’m torn about staying on or just cleansing the palate by a clean wipe of that filth-ridden, narcissistic forum.
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