Can a child be baptized Catholic and Protestant?
I have a religious dilemma. I was raised Catholic and married a man who was baptized Methodist. He never went to church with his parents and they never taught him about religion, so he pretty much developed his own relationship with God, and does not agree with organized religion. He does not, however, mind me belonging to the Catholic church and if I choose to teach my children Catholicism, that is fine. We were married in the Catholic Church. We baptized our daughter Catholic and just had a son a few months ago. We planned to baptise him Catholic as well until we learned that my husband's parents would basically disown us if the child (the only male carrying on the family name) is not baptized Protestant. Apparently, all "xxxx" males since time began have been Protestant. So, my question is not regarding that fact that we would be disowned for not baptizing him Protestant, as I think this is kind of weird since they never followed the Protestant faith or taught their son to follow it, so please do not comment on this - I only added this part because I wanted to demonstrate just how much of a problem this has become.
My question is: can we baptize our child as a Catholic (our original plan) AND in the Protestant church? I plan to teach our children about the Catholic faith, and my husband also plans to teach them about what he believes, and ultimately, we are fine with whatever they choose. We tried the "no baptism" route (a compromise since I really want him baptized Catholic) and apparently, that is not an option for my in-laws.
Ironically, my husband, who is opposed to organized religion because it separate's God's believers, is now sandwiched between two religions with the upcoming baptism of his first born son and is just trying to come up with a solution to keep the family together - thus solidifying his dislike of religion in the first place... I doubt this is what God intended.