Yes, liberals value family , but not enough to recognize that a broken family is a tragedy. Divorce is actually worse than death as far as the grieving process goes- especially when there are children, custody battles, parental support, and alimony involved. And homosexuals raising children? That is tragic, not something to be celebrated. Maybe if we'd *recognize* that a broken family is a tragedy we would be more willing to say, pay taxes for WIC so that the single mother working a minimum wage job actually has the ability to choose life. Maybe we'd have more men willing to stick around and help raise the children they cause because the condom broke while they were stupidly using sex only for recreation. Maybe, just maybe, we'd be raising men instead of a generation of cowardly wimps who choose homosexuality and suicide over real life. Suffering and tragedy is valuable- but only if we recognize that it exists.
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That is fine that she has found a concept of God that makes her feel good. But that concept is only the invention of the human mind, not necessarily a reality. From accepting that concept, she must now confront the catechism. She must accept "Church teaching" whether it makes sense or not. She must change her attitude toward gay marriage, contraception, abortion to save a mother's life, in vitro fertilization to bring life into the world, death with dignity, etc. All for a concept that makes her feel good. One that she could just accept without joining a religion.
She really did not discuss evidence. She just finds the argument for Catholicism to be rational and logical. She has yet to delve into the irrational and illogical parts of the religion.
Galileo died in bed of old age, for instance.
As to the goodness of God, objective truth, to which true reason is oriented and fulfilled, that IS the reality.
"gay marriage, contraception, abortion to save a mother's life, in vitro fertilization to bring life into the world, death with dignity"
Are all irrational and unreasonable, even without the teaching of the Church. They are the brainwashing of Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute in their attempt to "reduce the human population" of "certain unwanted groups", according to the Jaffe Memo. The original sources of the Jaffe Memo. They are not science, they're propaganda, and you have fallen for the brainwashing of Malthusian Eugenicists.
No. It is not irrational to allow gays to marry.
It is not irrational to plan and control the size of one's family through the use of contraceptives.
It is not irrational to terminate a pregnancy if the mother's life is endangered or if she is on chemotherapy.
It is not irrational to use IVF to conceive.
It is not irrational to allow a terminally ill patient to die on their own terms, with their loved ones by their side or alone, whichever they desire.
It is you who are trying to rationalize Church teaching because that is what you must do to defend your faith.
I don't have to depend on Church teaching to see that you've bought into the *very things the Jaffe Memo was talking about promoting as propaganda back in 1969*.