Reply #6: I never had to come out

[uberllama42]

So I can't really offer any advice other than to wish you luck. My parents have been lapsed Catholics since they were younger than I am, so nobody ever expected me to be religious. I stopped believing when I was a teenager, but nobody had ever gave us grief over not going to church anyway, so it didn't make much of a difference when I realized there isn't a man up in the sky who cares whether we go or not.

Both sides of my family are just pretending to be Catholic anyway. Except for one of my dad's cousins, none of them even go to church. It would be pretty rich to catch hell from a pack of wedding-and-funeral Catholics.

You seem fairly well-prepared to explain your beliefs and your decision. I hope the situation doesn't deteriorate into an ugly scene. Good luck.