May 24, 2004
Why should Homosexual Marriage be Legal?
I just read an excellent section in Our Sunday Visitor’s May 16, 2004 issue on Homosexual marriage. In it was this tidbit:
If two people want to be married, why should it matter to us whether the law recognizes their union?
Marriage is a private relationship, but it has very public consequences. In every age and culture, the family is founded on marriage, and society is founded on the family.
Why is this so? First, marriage provides the best environment for rearing children: a stable, loving relationship between mother and father.
Second, marriage offers society an essential pattern for male-female relationships. It models interdependence and lifelong commitment between men and women to seek the good of each other, their families and others.
Consequently, human governments are right to recognize and foster the marriage relationship through law, because marriage makes a unique and crucial contribution to the common good.
Any attempt to redefine marriage, making other relationships its equivalent, only devalues marriage and weakens it. Such an attempt denies the need for complementarity between marriage partners, and for the conjugal bond that makes possible the transmission of life.
Public laws shape a culture’s ideals, thoughts and behaviors. They have considerable power to determine what a society finds morally acceptable. Inevitably, legal status for same-sex unions would function as an official stamp of public approval on homosexual behavior.
The entire article was good - this is just one section of it. It was in a special section of OSV called “In Focus: Same-Sex Marriage.” I highly recommend you take some time to read these articles, since this is a critical discussion America will have over the next few years.
God bless,
Jay
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It may encourage you to know my church(AOG, evangelicals) and over 400 others got togther Sunday night via simulcast to pray over this very issue. I encourage you keep informed, pray and contact your local Senators at least weekly.
Check out http://www.frc.org/ for more info.
Posted by: Stan at May 24, 2004 11:19 AM
