Yeah ... that's the way to get people over to your side

If alcohol is a sin, most Catholics I know are on the road to hell

 

C'mon, churches aren't socialist.

 

Fixed

 

It's not a sin to Catholics. But it is to some other religions.

 

Can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Hondo here.

While I think discussing the topic with interested members of the church would be a good thing, disrupting their services is rude and unnecessary. Protest on public grounds (courthouses, etc) and in a proper manner. The whole concept of bash back is a bit sickening to me...turn the other cheek and make the bashers look foolish in their boorish ways.

 

And then we have this:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450884,00.html

Great...the gay community can show up en masse to protest, and that's their right. Fine. But when one elderly woman shows up at their protest, carrying a cross in her way of protesting them, they turn into storm troopers.

 

To quote Matthew 5: 38-47

 

You can find ugly examples on both sides of how people are being treated. Sadly, people are losing control of their anger and lashing out in the wrong manner.

 

Yeah, well, I don't see churches openly shunning members who drink, either. Guess you can overlook certain things.

Also falling into that category: Divorce. Remind me again why we don't have constitutional amendments to ban divorce, which I'm pretty sure the Bible said wasn't OK either.

 

Being Catholic is a sin to some other religions

 

Except for the more extreme Protestant denominations (which adopted the "no alcohol" thing as an extension of anti-Catholic bigotry), churches don't think alcohol is a sin.

Remember, Jesus not only drank wine, His first miracle was turning water to wine and at The Last Supper, He gave His apostles wine with the directive to drink it: "This is my blood."

 

The protests against Prop 8's passing aren't helping. Going after everyone who supported the measure, or companies that employ people who support the measure? Do they want progress?
They need to regroup and improve education on the issue. When you make up such a small minority, you need to make your case about something a wider section of the public can relate to. Like laws against Jews and Gentiles/interracial marriage/arranged marriage. Olbermann really was on point about what the Prop 8 campaign should have been about.