Comments | wombat_socho: Food for thought

wombat_socho

Food for thought

Oct 17, 2010 14:18

"I went to my niece's wedding at the pastor went off on some rant in his sermon about marriage is between a man and a women and anything else is wrong... I about wanted to punch him in the head. REALLY? at a wedding, not the time or place to preach that crap."Well, um...where else are you going to preach that message? Aside from the usual Sunday ( Read more... )

culture w/o politics, other peoples' problems, it's a catholic thing

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huladavid October 17 2010, 18:44:07 UTC

Hell's weddings have always been political.

wombat_socho October 17 2010, 19:24:05 UTC

To say nothing of all the political marriages here on Earth, for that matter.

huladavid October 17 2010, 23:54:22 UTC

Yep. But on to pleasenter subjects. Think the rain's gonna hurt the Twins this year?

wombat_socho October 18 2010, 02:17:41 UTC

I think the Yankees have hurt the Twins far more than the rain ever could. :(

qob October 17 2010, 22:25:05 UTC

Frankly as a Priest can feel free to preach about the Immaculate Conception,or a Lutheran to talk about Justification by Faith without the works of the Law, any minister who's faith believes in traditional marriage should freely preach it. Especially in the Catholic Church where marriage is a Sacrament.

cutelildrow October 18 2010, 02:21:53 UTC

This. Especially Catholic Churches.

haikujaguar October 17 2010, 23:43:53 UTC

Wow. O_O

wombat_socho October 18 2010, 02:18:19 UTC

inorite?

kishiriadgr October 18 2010, 02:24:08 UTC

Dunno, I'd be pissed (and actually stop the homily) if it were MY wedding. All the queer guests would cheer me on.

wombat_socho October 18 2010, 03:51:33 UTC

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you always gave me the distinct impression of being the kind of person smart enough to talk this over with the priest BEFORE things got out of hand. Stopping the homily may make for great drama, but strikes me as the kind of thing I'd rather hear of second-hand. :(

kishiriadgr October 18 2010, 04:10:34 UTC

Did the priest ask about it beforehand? See, I wouldn't expect it, and if it just came up out of the blue, I'd be mad!

wombat_socho October 18 2010, 04:16:34 UTC

He would probably have made the entirely reasonable assumption that if you were having a Catholic wedding, you'd be down with Catholic doctrine. See, this is why I'm attending a Ukrainian Particular church these days; between my rusty Russian and Ukrainian liturgical argot*, I'm probably only understanding 20% of what the pastor says that isn't in the liturgy. (HHOK)

* to say nothing of the differences between Russian and Ukrainian, which are kind of like the differences between Spanish and Italian, only with different versions of Cyrillic to add to the fun. :(

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wombat_socho October 18 2010, 03:52:03 UTC

This.