Strike This One Off the Bucket List...

[ladychi]

It's a curious dichotomy of my life that I'm both Catholic and extremely casual.

Comments

[wendymr]

I don't call it hypocrisy at all. I call it loving your neighbour as yourself, and not judging lest you be judged ;)

Good for you! And I hope your friend has a wonderful wedding-day and a very happy life with her wife.

[mysanal]

Ditto and ditto!

[kyrina]

This actually goes bring up a good set of thinking (and I'm glad you posted it). I actually ended up losing a lot of faith around the time when I realised that me and the Catholic Church disagreed on a lot to do with sex.

That being said, I'm glad you were able to figure out a way to make it all work in your mind.

Besides, you're an awesome person and don't need to be stuck in very specific definitions :D

edit: Let's be honest anyway. A lot of American Catholics don't agree with a lot that comes out of the Vatican. It's rare to meet one that is against birth control use!

[canaana]

Good for you! I'm always so glad to meet another person who's happy with her own identity, without feeling the need to force the rules and strictures "assigned" to that identity on anyone else. :)

And I love that you're standing up at M's wedding. Weirdly, I was just looking at some of my wedding pictures today and thinking that I love that half the wedding party is wearing glasses, and there's a candid where you can see my sister's tattoo as she's straightening out my necklace, and the officiant is wearing a kilt in Nova Scotia's tartan . . . all the things that make my family and friends real people, rather than having been made to fit a mold of what we'd all been told was "okay" at weddings.

[wickedgillie]

I don't think it's hypocrisy at all. I'd consider myself much the same kind of Catholic as you. And honestly, from everything I know of Christ, if it was his friend, he'd stand up at that wedding too.

[jaradel]

I must be a cafeteria Baptist, then, because I feel the same way about gay marriage. Even our pastor said it's wrong to discriminate against gays, which is HUGE for a Baptist minister to say.

I look at it this way - Jesus gave us two commandments. In Matthew 22:37-40, He says: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." If more Christians would pay attention to those few verses, there'd be a lot less hate and division in the world.