Action Item - Marriage - 1

Action Item – Marriage – 1
cinops be gone Monday, June 09, 2008
What we are dealing with is a darkness of error. We can free ourselves from this darkness by the light of truth and proclaim it. St. John asserts in his letter: God is light & whoever abides in God is in the light just a God himself is the light.
Catholics for the Common Good (www.ccgaction.org/family/stand with children) has provided us with some excellent articles on marriage that will help us in the missionary work of knocking on doors in the precincts of America.

Analysis: How California Court Undermined Marriage: It is a classic by J. Boom

When the vote of one justice on the California Supreme Court provided a majority that changed the legal meaning of marriage, the ruling immediately sparked a political controversy. However, this judicial decree goes far beyond politics. It strikes at the very heart of society. The basic building block of social life is the family.

Human beings are not manufactured on factory assembly lines. We come into existence through the physical union of a man and a woman. This union cannot stop at the physical level. When a man and woman are united at all levels – socially, emotionally, economically, and legally – then they are able to provide a child everything he or she needs for health.

Only the combination of a mother and father can provide a child with the full spectrum of emotional, moral, social and economic support. Because this union is so necessary for a child’s well being, it is a matter of social justice for a child to have a father and a mother. Every baby, every little boy and girl, and every adolescent needs parental care. To protect the rights and interests of the child, societies and religions have instituted marriage, which is the complete union of a man and a woman.

The Court’s decision, however, turns marriage inside-out. Instead of being an institution designed with children’s rights in mind, it is now an arrangement for the convenience of adults. An adult has a “right” to marry any other adult, regardless of how their arrangement will affect children. A man-man or woman-woman pairing are now legal equivalents of the pairing of a man and a woman. This means that society no longer has an institution that specifically encourages men and women to commit to each other in solid unions- even though such unions are the only way to provide children with both mothers and fathers.

The Court goes even further in preventing society from holding up unions of men and women as a norm. The four justices ruled that homosexuals constitute a “suspect class.” This means that sexual orientation has the same legal status as race or religion. Just as government cannot favor one race or religion over another, so also it cannot favor one sexual orientation over another.

In other words, the State of California cannot do anything to promote the special value of men and women committing to each other, because that would be discrimination against homosexuals. In the Court’s view, anyone who holds that there are unique reasons for unions of men and women is a bigot. This implicitly places churches and synagogues on the same level as the Ku Klux or white supremacists. (Cont’d tomorrow)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.