A very Catholic boy is hitting on me right now.

[lightningandsnow]

He's actually a sweetheart, I'm just dreading the inevitable "I'm a kinsey 4, a member of the pro-choice coalition of Ottawa, and I'm voting NDP in the next election. Are you still interested?" conversation.

(Yeah. When I mean Catholic, I mean CATHOLIC. He was wearing a t-shirt with a bible quote the other day...)

[Tobin S.]

1. I'm an atheist and I'm going to date a witch this weekend

I'll probably do okay as long as I don't make her angry. I guess if I do I might get my head shrunk or something. :)

Hey, you never know. He might be one of those groovy left wing Catholics like Dennis Kucinich.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. You got me thinking...

...how many of my ex-boyfriends said that about me?

:rofl:

[MineralMan]

14. I dated a witch once. We were driving along one night...

and she suddenly turned into a motel. k-boom-shh

[seabeyond]

2. i married a catholic. love the catholic.... he is a non practicing catholic, lol

once a catholic always a catholic. they just have their own word for the one that doesnt go to church, ever. i know more about his religion than he does.

he is pro choice
two gay brothers

and he is fun. something about catholics (not intentionally) seems to attract me. in calif all my friends catholic. in texas where there arent many, my two friends and hubby the few catholics.

ah well

[DFW]

4. My wife was born into a Catholic family that has a family geneology back the the year 1473

(Welcome to Europe)

Her mom still goes to Mass at least once a week and on Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Easter ("first you get down on your knees.....").

She is a wonderful, nice old lady (well, 82 is so far still old to me), but has given up on her daughter (my wife) ever
coming back into the fold. I don't begrudge her her beliefs and rituals, but I would never have married a girl who really
believed we'd go to hell if we didn't believe that stuff. Luckily for me, my wife is 100% retired from religion (as am I),
and although we allowed our children to be instructed in the history of religion (required at their surprisingly conservative
German school), and decide for themselves if any ofit appealed to them, they have so far (ages 24 and 26) chosen "none of the above."

My mom-in-law may be a conservative practicing Catholic, but she's not so indoctrinated as to think that an unhappy marriage
with religion is better than a happy marriage without it. She is delighted that we are still together after 35 years, and
that our children are well-adjusted and very smart, and are just pleasant people to have around.

I guess a childhood in Hitler's Germany is enough to make you at least stop and question if everything you hear from the
voices of authority is necessarily true or good for you.

[seabeyond]

5. my MIL, a devote catholic left the church around 2002. it is really sad

she loved her religion. but seeing that two sons came out of closet and church so opposed to them, she couldnt go. that does make me sad for her because there was a lot there that she really valued and had to leave. didnt vote repug last two elections even though a real repug and couldnt vote dem, because repugs so ugly to gays.

i can respect that

we have done the same with our kids. they have study and played with religion. it is theirs to do. i am there for them any way they chose, and to discuss. they are still young though. relatively, lol.

always good to see you

[DFW]

15. Same here!

:hi:

My MIL has a totally different background, of course, doesn't even speak a word of English, and of course votes in
her own country. But although she votes CDU here, she was still thrilled to see Obama defeat McCain soundly, as was
something like 85% of Germany.

[Chan790]

6. Right...and.

Is he cute? Are you interested?

Sometimes people surprise you and I can personally vouch for the repression of "very Catholic boys" having been one, the sort who not only used to wear biblical quote tee-shirts but was fitted for the clerical collar. Then a sweet nice woman in my college English class turned out over beers and quesadillas to be in fact a very fun sort of dirty girl and that was the end of my repression and any illusions I was meant to be a priest.

(Also, what was the quote? There is a world of difference between the very Catholic boy who wears a shirt which quotes Jesus (because Jesus was, at the heart of it all, a leftist challenging the conservative leadership of his day.) and one who wears a shirt which quotes Paul (a whiny weak apologist who tried to explain away as much of the radicalism as possible. A church without Paul having ever existed would be a much more liberal faith than the one which exists.))

[Captain Hilts]

7. He could still be a cafeteria Catholic. Give him a try. nt

[Bucky]

8. Um, don't be surprised. Christians are called upon to spread the faith.

And the Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas teaches that the moral man is one who actively pursues the good. Or, in this case, the "goods."

[KamaAina]

9. "Kinsey 4" would be a sweet name for a grrl band!

:hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. You might be surprised. Not all of us will bite your head off, trust me.

And even if he is hardcore Catholic, don't write him off totally. You might actually agree on certain things like the death penalty, justified war doctrine, social justice issues for the poor.

This is coming from a practicing Cat-holic.

[undeterred]

11. I know a couple of "lapsed Catholics" who married

and decided to raise their children in the Catholic Church- reasoning that children need something to rebel against so they would turn out as well as their parents did!

[TxRider]

12. Opposites attract?

Attraction scoffs at political boundaries

[rug]

13. Threesomes beat rosaries.