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This week my wife and celebrated our Twenty-Third wedding anniversary. We drove to southwestern Michigan to my father's house in a blizzard. The journey which normally took three hours took over six hours. The next day dawned clear, the sky was so very blue and the sun so very bright. We drove from my father's house to a the county seat, Paw Paw Michigan. There Mary and I exchanged vows in front of a judge. We were civilly married. Our marriage was blessed two years later when Mary's annulment came through and we reaffirmed our vows in front of God and His Church. From day one I have taken my marriage vows very seriously as I not only promised them to my bride Mary, but also to God. I believe God brought Mary and I together, it was His plan and I am bound to fully cooperate with it.
Our marriage is a marriage between one man and one woman. This is how marriage has always been from the very start. Go back to the story of Adam and Eve. Adam did not find a partner from among any of the creatures of the earth. God therefore created a special being for him, a woman. All through Bible history most of the people God chooses for special tasks are men that have but one wife. God considers the bond of marriage a sacred thing, not just an ordinary relationship but relationship where man and woman can cooperate together and bring new life into the world. This is the reason why a man leaves his family and clings to his wife, to join God in the creation of new life.
Gay marriage is something that does not exist. Our Supreme Court may say it does, our president may paint the gay rainbow in light on the White House, but that does not make gay marriage any more legitimate. Marriage is about the creation of life. Two men or two women engaged in a sexual act cannot consummate the act to join with God in creating a new human being. You can scream all you want to about "equality under the law" but the spiritual nature of marriage and the marriage act itself makes such equality something that is impossible to achieve in the Congress or in the courts.
But why is the Catholic Church so homophobic? Homosexual action organizations trot out the homophobic label when they detect any disagreement with their positions. It therefore removes a persons right to disagree with their position by in effect saying that those that disagree with them are in some way irrational. The Catholic Church do not see homosexual men or women as sinful people. The Church, however, does see the sexual acts between people of the same sex to be contrary to God's natural law. The Church can never approve of these acts as they are not able to produce life. On the other hand those who are afflicted with same sex attraction are welcome to be Catholics practicing and living their live in a chaste and celibate way. Does this seem unfair? Hardly, the Church calls all her children to be chaste and celibate and to make use of the physical act of love in the way God gave it to us, to be used to pro-create between one man and one woman.
The Church also sees a redefinition of marriage to include same sex unions to be a danger to society. Same sex marriages lack the solemnity of genuine marriages. Same sex marriages are based solely on the feeling one person for another. It does not have the same depth as a genuine marriage because no matter what the two men or women can never use their procreative powers in the way that God intended. The feelings of love one has at the start of a relationship change through the years. With man and woman love becomes less of a feeling and more of a way of life. A homosexual union will go through the same sort of change, the original feelings of love will give way and the relationship will no longer meet the emotional needs of the partners and they will split and go their separate ways.
Well, maybe two men cannot mate and procreate but they can certainly adopt can't they? Unfortunately this is true. The children pay the price for having two mommies or two daddies. A child needs both male and female influences for them to grow up emotionally. This balanced nurturing is required for healthy growth.
Finally, the proponents of gay marriage are trying to change society to recognize homosexuality as a normal way of life. They are trying to achieve acceptance of the straight community for no other reason but to silence the nagging doubt in the back of their conscience that something is wrong in their life. Legal pronouncements will do nothing to assuage their conscience, it will remain standing in the way of a complete joyful life because they are looking for something that does not exist nor has it ever existed.
Am I homophobic? No, I am not. I am a realist, I am a Catholic, and the reading and research I have done tells me that everything we do in life that goes against God's natural law leads to sadness, sin, death, and eternal loss of one's place with God. I also because of my beliefs have to stand up and point out that homosexual actions are wrong, are against God's law and will lead to pain. I have to stand up for what is right no matter what rabid gays thing and say. I am a gentle person, I love life, I love people but I also must stand tall and speak my beliefs. I have this right and duty.
But why is the Catholic Church so homophobic? Homosexual action organizations trot out the homophobic label when they detect any disagreement with their positions. It therefore removes a persons right to disagree with their position by in effect saying that those that disagree with them are in some way irrational. The Catholic Church do not see homosexual men or women as sinful people. The Church, however, does see the sexual acts between people of the same sex to be contrary to God's natural law. The Church can never approve of these acts as they are not able to produce life. On the other hand those who are afflicted with same sex attraction are welcome to be Catholics practicing and living their live in a chaste and celibate way. Does this seem unfair? Hardly, the Church calls all her children to be chaste and celibate and to make use of the physical act of love in the way God gave it to us, to be used to pro-create between one man and one woman.
The Church also sees a redefinition of marriage to include same sex unions to be a danger to society. Same sex marriages lack the solemnity of genuine marriages. Same sex marriages are based solely on the feeling one person for another. It does not have the same depth as a genuine marriage because no matter what the two men or women can never use their procreative powers in the way that God intended. The feelings of love one has at the start of a relationship change through the years. With man and woman love becomes less of a feeling and more of a way of life. A homosexual union will go through the same sort of change, the original feelings of love will give way and the relationship will no longer meet the emotional needs of the partners and they will split and go their separate ways.
Well, maybe two men cannot mate and procreate but they can certainly adopt can't they? Unfortunately this is true. The children pay the price for having two mommies or two daddies. A child needs both male and female influences for them to grow up emotionally. This balanced nurturing is required for healthy growth.
Finally, the proponents of gay marriage are trying to change society to recognize homosexuality as a normal way of life. They are trying to achieve acceptance of the straight community for no other reason but to silence the nagging doubt in the back of their conscience that something is wrong in their life. Legal pronouncements will do nothing to assuage their conscience, it will remain standing in the way of a complete joyful life because they are looking for something that does not exist nor has it ever existed.
Am I homophobic? No, I am not. I am a realist, I am a Catholic, and the reading and research I have done tells me that everything we do in life that goes against God's natural law leads to sadness, sin, death, and eternal loss of one's place with God. I also because of my beliefs have to stand up and point out that homosexual actions are wrong, are against God's law and will lead to pain. I have to stand up for what is right no matter what rabid gays thing and say. I am a gentle person, I love life, I love people but I also must stand tall and speak my beliefs. I have this right and duty.
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