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Old 03-18-2009, 12:30 AM
hlg1767 hlg1767 is offline
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Question How can I deal with "good intentioned" prayers?

I am going this summer to visit my mother in sunny Puerto Rico and even when some of you may feel a little jealous, for me is not fun. My mother is always mentioning me in her church and adding my name to their prayers. I am very gracious to that and thank her because after all is not a bad thing to be remembered by others in prayer. The hard thing is when I am there, she want me to invite me to her church so they pray for me. She always ask me that as a "favor to your mother" so she can "go to church with her son". According to her church homosexualism is a demon and the way to deal with it is having 10 people (or more) put hands over the person (victim) and scream with all their heart for the demon to leave until, I guess, they can't take any more the torture of having people screaming in their ears or maybe just because of the embarrasment, they just fell to the floor. I don't want to be part of that circus. I think is denigrant and insulting. Should I still go to her church? How should I deal with it? And, what if I don't go to church on the time I am visiting but they give us a "surprise" visit?
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