In the house with us here at the Catholic Answers, if I love to do that, yes you are.

If you're just joining us, the Catholic Answers conference happens each year, the last full weekend of September here in Southern California, we've got a great theme this year.

We believe in God, wonderful, wonderful speakers, including our guests today, Tim Staples, who will be speaking when tomorrow or Saturday, I can't remember.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow, you're going to be about to wish.

And we're doing the open forum from right here on the floor of the conference, I guess I should say, some people that you met Thomas the TikTok engine, you met Edgar over there.

This is Jack who's running the cameras, he runs the cameras in the studio as well. This is Andrew over here who does all kinds of video work, including running the cameras sometimes, and that's Darren, who produces the show every day.

Big hand for Darren, yes.

All the questions are going to come from in the room and the line is already very long, so Tim, you're getting right to work.

All right, let's do it.

All right, let's start with Carolyn from Sue City, Kansas. No. Laura from Nevada. No. Marilyn from Colorado. No. All right, Edgar, how's it going over there? Did I introduce Edgar?

It's Carolyn, but it's from Scott City, Kansas.

Oh, okay. I apologize. You know what? I apologize to Edgar because he wrote Scott City, and I read it wrong. I apologize for that, Edgar.

Welcome, Carolyn. Go ahead with your question for Tim.

Thank you. Many people are not returning or not coming into the Catholic Church solely because they want to support their homosexual friends,

including the joy of establishing a household together, whether they want or children or not.

How would you bring someone into the church with this objection?

Right. It's a crucial question in our time.

I could use the example in my own family. We have a family member in my wife's family who left the Catholic Church and is practicing homosexuality.

And years ago, we really, I don't want to say we got an argument, but we shared with him the truth of the matter.

And we did so over a couple of thanksgivings, a couple of Christmases, and things would get a little heated.

But it ended up separating us to the point where he refused to come to any more family meetings.

And I really felt bad about that. But years later, it took quite a few years, he came back.

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