Catholics hear anti-Obama letter in church

[HuckleB]

120. Oh, I get it.

I had to leave the church for many reasons, but one was that I wouldn't go to confession for things that I didn't believe were wrong. The majority of our peers (we're in our early '40s), definitely used birth control, and most had multiple partners. (My wife and I are the oddballs, as we've been together since our teens. On the other hand, we were ambivalent about children, and the we tried, had one, and REALLY wanted another. That did not work out. We're OK with that. We know the reality of the decisions we made. Blah. Blah. Blah.)

Many of the folks we grew up with resemble our experience (no children, one child or two children), but many have multiple kids over time. We don't tend to spend much time with those who decided to have big families. Further, most of them are classic "habit" Catholics. They don't go to church much, but they make sure their kids are baptized, have first communion, etc... Again, back to the beginning of this post. I couldn't do that with my kid. I'm not going to make promises to anyone that I can't keep.