Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The UK Government's Attempt to Redefine Reality by Redefining the One-Man One-Woman Covenant of Marriage


Imagine for a moment if someone one day tried to announce that a new law would try to redefine gravity, and that a whole bunch of people were about to jump off a sky scraper in the capitol city to prove that gravity is a law that we could just do without.
This is no different from someone trying to redefine the natural law of marriage, that is, as the President and Vice-President of the Catholic Bishops Conference for England and Wales have said in a letter that will be read in 2,500 parishes this weekend (Full Text), "written in our nature" and "is the pattern of complementarity and fertility."  It is not a law that anyone has the right or authority to change.  The only way it could be changed is that if God would create new laws into the fabric of creation, much like suddenly creating objects to float away from instead toward a center of gravity.
The one-man, one-woman covenanted union is the image and likeness of God, which is why God will certainly not wake up one day and decide to change the law of nature written into our bones.  God is a family, the Eternal Family of the Father and the Son, whose perfect Love eternally sprites the Holy Spirit, just as the love between man and woman is such a perfect union that 9 months later you have to give it a name.
This is also why according to the most senior prelate of Great Britain, 
"In Article 16 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, marriage is defined as a relationship between men and women. But when our politicians suggest jettisoning the established understanding of marriage and subverting its meaning they aren’t derided. 
"Instead, their attempt to redefine reality is given a polite hearing, their madness is indulged. Their proposal represents a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right."

This kind of foolishness must be stopped.  We have a political and moral responsibility to stop it.  To do so the Catholic Bishops who wrote the letter about marriage suggest signing this declaration, which will tell our government leaders that we do not want a loud minority to control the well being of the UK and this is not tolerable.
I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. I oppose any attempt to redefine it.


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