CANADA'S EXPERIENCE WITH SAME-SEX MARRIAGE - # 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015
The Supreme Court has announced it will rule on same-sex "marriage" in this sitting (June, 2015) - exactly ten years after Canada legalized same-sex "marriage." It is important to look at what has happened in Canada. (Reprinted with permission from Crisis Magazine)
On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex "marriage." On that day the sun rose as it always does, people went to work, daily Mass was celebrated in Catholic Churches and daily life continued to unfold at it normally does. In the days and months following there was no massive spike in the numbers of same-sex couples getting "married" (it had already been legal in 8 of 10 provinces since 2003), the speculated upon possibility of same-sex "marriage" tourism from the U.S. never really materialized and the Canadian flag was changed from the maple leaf to LGBT rainbow. But something very significant happened with the legalization of same-sex "marriage" in Canada and it wasn't about the freedom of gay people to marry, it wasn't really about marriage.
July 20, 2005 marked a very significant step towards totalitarianism in Canada.
Free speech, the rights of parents, the right to preach and practice one's religion and the worn and tattered fibers of normative decency were all deeply damaged. With the legalization of same-sex "marriage" what had been aberrant only a few years earlier became entrenched as a legal right, and what had been normal and natural view of sexuality had been reduced to the retrograde thinking of hate crime dinosaurs.
Terrence Prendergast is the Catholic archbishop of Ottawa. Speaking at St. Thomas University in Minnesota in 2012, he outlined the consequences of same-sex "marriage" in Canada.His list included: restrictions on freedoms, forced sex education, sexually confused children, sexual experimentation among children, muzzling and debilitating the Church, more births out of wedlock, more in-vitro fertilizations, more abortions, more poverty, more misery more disease, more addictions and higher health care costs.
Calgary bishop Frederick Henry was called before a Human Rights Commission Tribunal in 2005 for writing a letter defining Catholic teaching on same-sex "marriage." During his speech, Archbishop Prendergast quoted Bishop Frederick Henry saying: "Human rights laws designed as shield are now being used as a sword. The issue is rarely truth formation, but rather censorship. and applying a particular theology through threats, sanctions and punitive measures." Archbishop Prendergast continued: "The Bible is being called hate literature. Clearly, the Church is in the cross hairs. There will be growing pressure for the Church to comply or be shut down."
Collective madness is a term usually applied to the fevered frenzy of the mob, but there is darker, more systematic and more enduring collective madness achieved by reducing obvious truths to elephants in the room. With the legalization of same-sex "marriage" we had a legal edict establishing the normative nature of same-sex "marriage" and thereby ruling out as discriminatory essential arguments about the complementarity of male and female or the procreative purpose of marriage.
Normally, the first thing we notice about a person is their sex, and the first things we realize when thinking about the sexes are the obvious physical complementary of male and female, but in the new SSM regime these simple and obvious truths must be appended with a caveat saying that there is no such thing as nature, human sexuality is plastic and there is nothing essentially organic. good or true.
This is hugely significant for the psycho-sexual formation of the young and for the happiness and flourishing of individuals and society as a whole, but it is also a decisive step towards the destruction of critical intelligence, the cultivation of abject dependence, and then finally madness and totalitarianism.
Doug Mainwaring works with CanaVox, a project of the Witherspoon Institute. He is a self-described gay man who is abstinent. Mainwaring describes the efforts to redefine marriage a " form of incremental totalitarianism." According to Mainwaring "gays and lesbians have been used as pawns by progressives to bring about this wedge issue that I really feel strongly is meant to usher in incremental totalitarianism."
GEORGE H. KUBECK
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