Huh,
Taht's interesting.
I know at one point years ago, when people were complaining about all the conservatives here, and I used you as an one example of one of the many here who swung left, you disagreed.
You stated the only position that you disagreed with Church teaching on was birth control.
Is that still the case?
Or are you supportive of same-sex marriage now, for example, too?
What do you mean with "you disagreed" - did I disagree with being left wing, or with being conservative?
Because I'm both conservative and left wing, so I shouldn't have disagreed with either.
No, I can't say it's still the same. I still disagree with the church's stand on birth control, but it's hard to believe in papal infallibility if you strongly disagree with one teaching. And I don't know whether my beliefs regarding hell are orthodox, either. But that follows from the birth control thing. I don't believe that using birth control sends you to hell per se.
I'm anti-abortion, and I'm pro-life all the way: anti-death penalty, anti-euthanasia (legal over here), anti-infanticide (which is sort of legal over here, slippery slope result of our euthanasia law, although I suspect Antigone will disagree), anti-gun, anti-war, anti-poverty, pro-universal healthcare, pro-welfare system, pro-solidarity, pro-marriage, pro-humans, pro-animals (life doesn't mean just humans!), pro-environment. I'm most conservative when it comes to the environment: you can't get more conservative (literally) than wanting to protect God's creation. Which is why quite a large group of environmentalists are christians.
I'm not supportive of same-sex marriage, but I'm not against it, either. I don't have an opinion on it, really, as it doesn't affect me in any way. I don't think same-sex relationships are harmful to our society. Nor beneficial. I'm just indifferent. We already have legal gay marriage over here (as do you in Canada), but we have separation of church and state in marriage. Church weddings have no legal status. This means that churches can never be forced to perform gay weddings, as gays can get married in the city hall. (Everyone has to have a legal wedding first, then, if they're believers, they can have a religious wedding. Two different ceremonies. Ours weren't even on the same day.) That's good enough for me, really. No catholic priest has to (from a state point of view) allow gays getting married in his church (and from a church point of view he can't, of course). If churches over here risked being forced to marry gays, I'd be against that - but that's out of the question.
The church doesn't recognize divorce (and I'm with the church in that), either, but that doesn't mean that catholics want to outlaw legal divorce - or do they?
And atheists can get married, whether you like it or not.
Ummm - any more questions? (I'm glad you asked!)
*hides behind sofa* (I thought we had a smiley for that! 
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