All Eyes on California: Future of True Marriage in the Balance?
By Deacon Keith Fournier, Catholic Online, 5/26/2009
For centuries the truth about marriage was accepted as a part of the “Natural Law.” It still is. But some choose to reject any such notion.
Proposition 8 in California clearly expressed the will of the voters of California. In the wake of the relentless and continual efforts of the new cultural engineers, the people of that State amended the constitution to read what was always implied, that marriage is what it is, the lifelong union between one man and one woman ordered toward the bearing of children and creation of a family.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - The whole world watches California. Once again, the State which has led the way on so many fronts in the massive Cultural Revolution currently underway in the West is the site of the newest volley in the battle to create some new idea of “marriage” out of homosexual relationships.
Homosexual activists have skillfully reframed the entire issue by calling this newest front in the Cultural Revolution a struggle for “marriage equality.” The move is simply one more example of their use of verbal engineering, what the late C.S. Lewis properly called “Verbicide”, the murder of a word. They are certainly masterful at it.
The stakes are extraordinarily high. With the demise of true marriage and the ascent of calling protracted homosexual relationships a new kind of marriage, the very ground upon which civil society is built will be rocked. Heterosexual, lifelong marriage is the stable foundation of the family. True marriage and the family founded upon it constitute the first society and the first cell of all civil societies. This position is accepted across Cultural and National boundaries. At least it was.
For centuries the truth about marriage was accepted as a part of the “Natural Law.” It still is. But some choose to reject any such notion that there are norms to guide human behavior upon which we all agree and which can be discerned through the light of reason. After all, just consider the conferral of the status of a “Right” to the most barbaric of acts, the killing of innocent children in the womb.
The Cultural Revolutionaries of our age have managed to shift the argument artfully and they have a Court which may propel their plan closer to its goal today… or not. We will soon find out.
Proposition 8 in California clearly expressed the will of the voters of California. In the wake of the relentless and continual efforts of the new cultural engineers, the people of that State amended the constitution to read what was always implied, that marriage is what it is, the lifelong union between one man and one woman ordered toward the bearing of children and creation of a family.
California began the flood of efforts by some homosexual activists in other States to engage in a kind of new alchemy, calling for the changing of one thing into another by either legislative or judicial fiat. Iowa, Vermont, and Maine decided they wanted to call homosexual couples married and New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey are promising to do the same. In an age where the law is what the legislators or the judges say it is, such actions are becoming more common.
So the world waits to see what the men and the women in the black robes in California will say. They will come out from behind that velvet curtain very soon and their decision will signal the next round in the continuing Cultural Revolution.
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=33653
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