Seriously, is this freedom?

Question

The same people who say I shouldn't impose my morality on them, are imposing immorality on me and my children to the point that I literally have a hard time even leaving my home anymore to do something as simple as visit the park. And this is freedom?

I am a Catholic stay-at-home mother of seven, and I live in the state of Massachusetts where "gay marriage" has been legal for seven years and it's just one aspect of the larger secular agenda. Because we have so many little children, it takes a phenomenal effort to go anywhere. We have only filled our truck with gasoline twice this entire summer vacation. We go to Mass and we go two miles up the road to a small outdoor swimming pool. That's pretty much it.

At the pool this summer there were homosexual couples with children and, while I was polite as my own young daughters doted on the baby with two "mommies", I also held my breath in anticipation of awkward questions - questions I'm not ready to answer. My young daughters are all under the age of eight and they are not old enough to understand why a baby would have two women calling themselves "mommies".

When there were two men relaxing at the side of the pool unnaturally close to each other, effeminately rubbing elbows and exchanging doe-eyes, I was again anxiously watching my children hoping they wouldn't ask questions. They don't see Daddy do that with anyone but Mommy. We haven't been back to the pool for a couple of weeks, except once but it rained. The truth is, now I don't really want to go back.

So what am I harping about?

Today we decided to go to the park. We live near a nice park that is safe, clean and quiet. Two of my daughters were in the sandbox, one on the slide, the other on the swings, and as I lifted the baby out of his stroller I looked up to see four women laughing at a baby boy as he was swinging in one of those bucket baby swings. That seems harmless enough, but I'm so sensitized to the strangeness in my community that I've developed this ever-present jumpiness whenever I'm in public. Sure enough, two of the women, so happy to see a baby boy laughing, embraced and remained standing there rubbing each other's back in a way that was clearly not just friendly affection.

This is my community. I find myself unable to even leave the house anymore without worrying about what in tarnation we are going to encounter. We are responsible citizens. We live by the rules, we pay our taxes, we take care of our things. I'm supposed to be able to influence what goes on in my community, and as a voter I do exercise that right. But I'm outnumbered. I can't even go to normal places without having to sit silently and tolerate immorality. We all know what would happen if I asked two men or two women to stop displaying, right in front of me and my children, that they live in sodomy.

So now I go on a rant.

Our taxes are being used to fund contraception, abortion and IVF already. That offends me in ways that are inexpressible. I read last December in the Wall Street Journal how two men near us are raising two assembled daughters after announcing to the world how they killed two other siblings in surrogate mothers in India. Let me guess? I shouldn't offend them though, right? And what's next at the park? A needle exchange drop-box for heroin users? No joke. These things are not isolated, it is all the same issue at a fundamental level. We're being pushed to accept immorality and it's not just on TV and in Washington D.C. It's right in front of us too.

We fund a lot of illegal immigrants here (just ask the President about his auntie) and helping people who really need help is not something I'd ever oppose. But it's still haunting me that just this week I learned of an illegal immigrant who killed a young man innocently out for a ride on his motorcycle. The illegal immigrant, who didn't have a license, was so drunk he didn't notice when he hit a motorcyclist and then dragged the 23 year old college graduate a quarter of a mile while people were yelling at him to stop. When he finally did stop, the young man was still alive until the drunk driver put the car in reverse and backed up over him before driving away. He's charged with vehicular homicide and "reckless conduct creating a risk to a child." He had a six year old in the car with him.

Do you think knowing this happened about seven miles from my home makes me afraid to leave the house? You bet it does. But that just adds to everything else I'm being asked to tolerate. Seriously, is this freedom?
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Answer 1

HA HA, I this is a copy and paste. I've totally heard this monologue read aloud by an internet vlogger ranting about how stupid it was.



And indeed it is stupid!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

the only good freedoms are those that put men into advantages and supremacy. you are a catholic so you pray to a male God and admit that pain during bearing a baby is a curse on woman although there is no proof of the story of Adam and Eve. hahahaha. Too many women fall for male dogmas!

Answer 4

Yes. that is freedom. You could easily move to The middle east where that is punished. You have the freedom to.

They could also move. They have the freedom to stay.

You also have the freedom

To stay.

You can't force your children to be Catholics forever. Enforcing that they follow the rules until 18 is up to you.

So to answer your question- They have the freedom to show affection.

As for the driver- Risks Happen EVERYWHERE. Every one dies.

Answer 5

Oh noes two homosexual couples offended my senses and I added some confused story about illegal immigrants! Call the cops! I can't leave my house any more!

Answer 6

No, it is not freedom when you choose to enslave yourself to a point of view that limits your ability to see and experience Love in all of its beautiful manifestations.



No, it is not freedom when you choose to limit yourself by hiding fearfully from the realities of life rather than embracing the richness of God's diverse manifestations with awe and appreciation..



No, it is not freedom when you impose your own limitations on your children so they grow up filled with unnecessary tension and fear instead of overflowing with Love for all the wonders of God's magnificence.



No it is not freedom when you choose to try to limit God to your personal views of what God's potentials for creativity and Love should be.

Answer 7

Oh dear, a true descendent of the pilgrims. Seeking the freedom to persecute, not freedom from persecution.

Answer 8

listen, you are going about this all wrong.

did you know that Christ never once spoke out against gays, but he spoke out against hatred all the time?

do you remember that he said "if one has broken part of the law, one has broken all of the law" - we all have broken the law.



i get that you are upset about abortion, i can understand that, but your children are not seeing that anywhere.

and you are associating abortion with gay people because you don't like them, and you heard one gay couple aborted two fetuses.

but do you feel that way about straight couples when you see them? do you tense up and get afraid about the abortions they have had? because FAR more straight people have them, than gay people.



my parents were child rapists, who beat us and started raping me when i was three. they taught us about God, and that He was OK with that. i somehow found the real God, in all of that pain and fear, and what i found was that God loves all of His children as much as He loves me. He loves His gay children as much as He loves you.

and honestly, i would have taken two gay parents over my own two straight "Christian" parents any day.



you are wrong to associate all that you fear and hate with gay people. they have not harmed you, and most never do the things you hate.

i think that if you are opposed to abortion, you should never support it, and be honest when you talk about it, but about gay people - you must remember that just as God made people who are left handed, He made gay people. and Christ told us to love everyone, and leave the judgments to God.



as to illegal immigrants - guess who kills more citizens? yup, the citizens themselves, not the illegals.

once again, you have taken one upsetting story, and are using it as an excuse to continue a prejudice.



so how about acting like a real Christian?

how about doing as Christ did?

he talked to prostitutes, and treated them like humans, he went to people who were dying - even of sexually transmitted disease, he gave love and blessings to them all.

and he loves all the people you look down on just as much as he does you.

you think of yourself as morally superior, but here you are displaying judgment and hate. those are sins, as real as all the rest.



i know you are scared for your kids. that means you are a caring mom. but running people down, and seeing evil everywhere doesn't - it makes you reactive. and that will only instill hatred and prejudice in your children.

please pray that God will help you to feel what He wants you to feel, about all of this, not just to listen to your fears.

i hope you don't mind if i do to.

please don't let your fears make you into a hateful Christian who feels superior. no one can turn people away from God faster.

Answer 9

People who are different from you existing is indeed freedom.



Get used to it or move to Iran!

Answer 10

Hatred and intolerance have taken control of your life, there isn't much hope for you.

Answer 11

Wall of text is over 9,000. It's power is ineffective.

Answer 12

dear stacy; that's a great speech. you are absolutly,correct. the morals of our country have goon right down the drain! another thing; im proud that there are still some people out there who speak the truth and give their real name,on r&s! god bless you for your courage!!

Answer 13

Only true freedom is through the son of God. Jesus Christ.

Answer 14

Too much blurb.