More Darkness

My encounter with a family member who is so misguided saddens me today. She has had a tough life living with polio losing a brother to Aids almost 20 years ago when my mom was dying. I saw him at my Mom's funeral and before that my mom had mentioned he had an encounter with a man, whether he was truly gay or Not in my eyes was never really determined but you could see the disease that had taken over his body I know he had a very rough death. He left a beautiful wife and 2 lovely daughters all grown up now. Several times on Facebook my cousin, who is the sister has endorsed the gay lifestyle and she is such a Supporter of our current president. We challenged her about this president before he was elected but things brought up just didn't make sense. Yesterday she posted a picture of the president extending the Medal of Freedom and also the famous picture of the soldier kissing the girl, next to this picture was a picture of 2 military guys kissing and 2 military women kissing under the title of God's Photo... I sent her a message that I would have to delete her because of this endorsement of this lifestyle I told her it had saddened me. I gave it some time probably not enough though and deleted her. At first she said she would remove the posts but when she saw I had deleted her she retracted. I mentioned that she is friends with my girls and I know this is out in the world but to have my own family members post this was disturbingand being a mom I try to shield them no matter how old they are. I told her endorsing this is against my Catholic views and religious upbringing. She states that she accepts my views as a good Christan should and as far as my children they are adults and she isn't influencing them,( how wrong she is) she states that she is sure they watch the news and they know what is going on in the world. They aren't being educated by her. She also says that there needs to be tolerance of each other as long as she wasn't hurting anyone else. And Then she brings her brother into the subject saying in capitals, remember one thing her brother was gay and yes he is in Heaven and she will always defend him. I responded that this wasn't about her brother, but about the pictures that I don't need to tolerate. Then she states she isn't changing her views for anyone and that her Christian family cannot accept her the way she was, as she does me. So what I get out of this is that her views are more important than our relationship. There are too many Catholics out there in name only, who choose to ignore the true teachings of the Catholic Church. Yes prayers are much needed for those that do not really see that wrong is wrong and wrong is not right. Saint Michael the Archangel Defend us in battle Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil May God rebuke him we humbly pray And do thou, O prince of the heavenly host By the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits Who wander through the world For the ruin of souls Amen We unite our prayers for those who are blind to the real truths, for those whose hurts make them see with Clouded eyes and hearts.