Accepting DSDad’s religious beliefs.

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My step dad has always been a believer and attended church. His last church was lovely and open, all guitars and clapping. He’s started going to a new church who are homophobic as a gay person I find this hard, they campaign against equal marriage, adoption for gay people, gay families and education about gay issues in schools. This is very hard for me as a gay person who campaigned for these rights, he also has niece who has a baby with her wife.

They also are anti choice and anti sex and babies out of marriage. Oh and preach about having as many babies as ‘god gives you’. In his previous church I always said my DD could go if she wanted to, now it’d be a cold day in hell before I left her go to THAT church!

My mum condones and excuses what they preach by saying he doesn’t understand that that’s what they believe.

How do I reconcile my own beliefs with what his church preaches?

@mustlovegin

I'm not going to entertain the question that is so insistently being put to me as it's always used to derail threads and shut down debate.

I think that everyone has the right to their own opinions and that there isn't a hierarchy of protected characteristics, all of them have the same standing. That's all that's relevant to this thread

There's a different between respecting someone's right to an opinion and respecting the opinions themselves.

Are you saying that if someone came on here to say that they that they're conscerned about their stepfather joining a racist organisation, would you tell them to be tolerant of that?

Actually @mustlovegin you're posts on other threads suggest that you are equally an apologist for racism as you are of homophobia.

ElectricDeChocobo

I've said everything that I need to say here - which is something as outrageous as everyone is entitled to an opinion and that all protected characteristics have an equal standing (there's no hierarchies)

I'm not engaging any further with you or those who are making irrational comments or false accusations