You ask the question in your latest post: "What should I have told him?" I know it sounds cliché, but I think the only thing that works is a bit of political "ecumenism": let’s start working on what each side has in common with the other. It just seems to me that human nature is always looking for something that is familiar, or like it. I've seen it happen before,both in my personal experience and in politics (think feminists and fundamentalists coming together over the issue of pornography). I think once we start seeing what it is we have in common with the "other side", we become less apt to dehumanize them and more willing to work with them without compromising those Permanent Things we care for so deeply.
(Kim also sent in a note saying she’s 41, single with no kids, active in her Catholic parish and community … and considering a vocation to the nunnery because it’s too hard to meet people. “What’s a single crunchy con to do?” she asks.)
