Unholy Matrimony

Gay marriages now encroach on the matrimonial legitimacy once bestowed only on unions between members of the opposite sex. Canada is the latest to follow this Europhillic tendency to permissiveness. Many brave religious leaders have spoken up against this trend.

Now, thankfully, an important stalwart of conservative values has risen up to defend the sanctity of heterosexual marriage against the latest liberal onslaught: Pope John Paul. On Thursday the Church will release it’s message concerning this timely and terrible trend sweeping from foreign lands right to our own northern border.

[Courtesy AP]
VATICAN CITY - Alarmed by growing legal acceptance of gay marriages, the Vatican is issuing new instructions to bishops and Catholic politicians in an effort to halt the trend.
The instructions, which call on politicians to oppose extending rights granted to traditional couples, are in a document prepared by the Church's guardian of orthodoxy, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The document — "Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons" — will be released Thursday, the Vatican said.
Pope John Paul II and top Vatican officials have been speaking out for months against legislative proposals to legalize same-sex marriages in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

It’s especially important that the Church react strongly to this latest experiment with the social order. And one might well ask, “What took him so long?” But the Pontiff’s fitting reaction now against this trend is still most welcome.

Any acceptance of homosexual unions would have grave societal impacts. It would strain corporations' pension plans, already reeling from their oversupply of company stock. The emptied lockbox of Social Security would be further overwhelmed in an effort to pay back to these "spouses" even a fraction of what had been taken from their paychecks over the years. And privatized healthcare providers, HMOs and their ilk, would have to give benefits to those entitled to them, but whom the law of holy matrimony, and the land, had previously let them ignore. Both corporations and taxpayers would find themselves facing considerable additional expenses should these unions be recognized.

Beyond that, however, are the moral implications of such alleged "tolerance." Acceptance of homosexual marriage would deal a terrible blow against the efforts to criminalize any sexual behavior between consenting adults deemed unacceptable by the Church. It is the “camel’s nose under the tent” to permitting contraception, sex out of wedlock, even the acceptance of abortion!

In fact, even if such perverse behaviors were practiced discretely in private and had no direct effect on the community at large, it is still, according to the majority of America’s leading religions, abhorrent in the eyes of God. And the Church wisely understands this simple fact and supports the general feeling of these leading religions: that God is everywhere and that He sees what happens in private, too.

But, as is so often the case, the real damage from such acceptance of perversity will be felt most strongly in those poor unfortunate children who would be the invevitable fruits of such sexual unions. To accept such “marriages” would be to encourage the raising of these innocents in a decidedly unhealthy environment, where all the adult role models are homosexual.

In support of the Church, one hopes some brave souls in Congress will at least pass a law prohibiting those adults in unholy homosexual matrimony from ever bearing children. Surely, such a compromise could be reached, even in an environment so poisoned by the current crop of liberal ideologues.

It is not the best solution, of course. It would be far better to criminalize homosexuality and all other such deviant behavior. Then send these wrong-thinking sociopaths to prison where they would no longer be able to practice their perversions—and spread their disruptive, anti-mainstream ideas. That said, we live in a “multicultural age,” so such sensible legislation is unlikely at this time.

Despite this unfortunate political situation, it is a proud moment for the Church. It stands tall and flies in the face of all that is “multi-cultural” and secular, to take its appropriately strong stance against homosexual marriage.

But it is also incumbent on the Church’s priesthood to reach out in their ministry to the poor unfortunate children of these homosexual unions. Let them be a safe harbor into whose welcoming arms these youngsters may run. There, nestled in the bosom of their neighborhood priest, may these little children find divinely-inspired wisdom on how best to deal with their blooming interest in “sex.” These men of the cloth, well versed in the Church’s sensible sexual doctrines, can share their knowledge and worldly experiences on these delicate matters—and serve as role models and close companions to these poor unfortunate offspring of sinfully damaging gay alliances. ¶ 2:22 PM