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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, I get what you mean about the gay pride parade, but somehow this is different.  I mean, if you thought you had the cure for cancer, you would be buttonholing people in the street, and that is the way they feel.  I just can't see a way out of this that isn't going to end up in tears.  I mean, telling them to stop this crap, is like telling them to stop being themselves.

I am older than my brother and his wife, and I feel protective of them, but ARGGGHHHH!  How do you get people that are that committed to separate their beliefs from the family?[/quote]

I think you need a two-pronged approach.  You need to talk to your kids about religion, specifically what they are hearing from your relatives and how those beliefs differ from your own, and you need to talk to the worst of your proselytizing relatives.  It may be difficult, but they need to know that you do not share their beliefs and that you do not want them attempting to convert your children.  If you don't feel like you can do that then you should either up your ante with your kids' religious education (and by that I mean educating them about various religions, the methods some people will use to try to convert them, and generally giving them some kind of defense mechanism to deal with what your relatives are throwing at them), or just hand over the reins to your relatives and let them take over.[/quote]

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