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redcaimen

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Originally Posted by acidicboy
The Catholic Church's counseling thing is pretty much that- a futile attempt to make sure that we practice Catholic teachings specially their rules on reproductivity (lets not go there).

Heard my father told the story of him having to ask special permission from the priest for him and my mom to get married since he isn't Catholic. The priest was very against it and wouldn't reconsider- until my father saw him coming out of a massage parlor and said hi to the priest. Next day he got the priest's approval.


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I love stories like this.
 

Fuuma

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Originally Posted by gdl203
Yes - Jewish ceremony - was very nice, rabbi was very touching and famility and friends were very touched (which is pretty much expected at a wedding). Fuuma, this is America ! You can have a Jewish wedding without a forced (but not really called "forced") conversion.

I know, I was just wondering. Some people now do two, or none (civil only) or whatever.
 

Rambo

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Originally Posted by Fuuma
I know, I was just wondering. Some people now do two, or none (civil only) or whatever.

Both religions at the same time is popular as well.

All this sounds more like a church pep-talk than counseling.
 

taxgenius

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Originally Posted by shoreman1782
Catholics are expected to practice "natural family planning." Hilariously, the couples who led our weekend didn't really know anything about it--they both said they would just take however many children God chose to give them.

More hilariously, several of the other couples did know about it--for one, it involved the guy calling his fiance in the morning (they didn't live in sin) to get her to check her temperature. He recorded it in a log so they could track and predict her cycle, and "plan their family" that way.


Isn't natural family planning still a conflcit with not ********** unless for purposes of reproduction?
 

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