Compared to the other moral disasters of the last fifty years, there is something qualitatively different about ‘Gay Marriage’. If this Bill receives Royal Ascent then the nature of the State in this country will change. It is well to recall the doctrine of Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum
“A family, no less than a State, is, as We have said, a true society, governed by an authority peculiar to itself, that is to say, by the authority of the father. Provided, therefore, the limits which are prescribed by the very purposes for which it exists be not transgressed, the family has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty. We say, ‘at least equal rights’; for, inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well in idea as in fact, to the gathering of men into a community, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior to those of the community, and founded more immediately in nature. If the citizens, if the families on entering into association and fellowship, were to experience hindrance in a commonwealth instead of help, and were to find their rights attacked instead of being upheld, society would rightly be an object of detestation rather than of desire.”
This Bill will effectively remove from the family the recognition of the State and constitute a claim by the State to be the author of marriage and the family. It is therefore a declaration of war against the family. Everyone belongs to a State and a family but their membership of a family is prior and therefore, in this war of the State against the family, the individual cannot be neutral. Any State which legalises ‘Gay marriage’ declares war against its own constituent parts and so dissolves itself.
What are the real consequences of this (other than making driving on the right a sin against prudence rather than justice)? I should say that it means that the Conservative, Labour, SNP, Green and Liberal parties have declared war on each one of us. Effectively it means that UKIP and the DUP are the only remaining parties (that have any chance of parliamentary representation) for which anyone should vote.
February 4, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Dear friend,
ROSARY TOMORROW, 5th February, 12 am GMT, FOR THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE
Tomorrow (5th of February), the first bill proposing same-sex marriage is going to be heard in British Parliament. I ask you to join me, and many others, in the praying of a rosary tomorrow to ask for Our Lady’s intercession in this. We are aiming to pray together at 12 am, noon (GMT) tomorrow. Pray whatever you are able to do – a decade, a Mystery, the full Rosary, even a short prayer to Our Lady -to beg for her help.
It is our hope that if Catholics pray together for this, we can gain Our Lady’s intercession in this dark hour.
Please pass the message on any way you can! Email, blog, text, social media. 12 am tomorrow – a worldwide rosary for the defense of marriage.
God Bless.
Maria Kolbe