Oppose the Respect for Marriage Act - Defend Marriage, Family, the Common Good

The leaders of the homosexual equivalency movement insist that homosexual sexual practices are morally equivalent to the sexual expression of marital love between a man and a woman. They now go further by insisting that every State make homosexual relationships legally equivalent to marriage. They are dedicated to building a society where the positive law of the Nation forces us all to call to be a marriage what can never be a marriage - or face the police power of the State. The "Respect for Marriage Act" seeks to destroy marriage.

P>WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - On Thursday, November 3, 2011 the so called "Respect for Marriage Act" (S.B. 598), championed by Senator Diane Feinstein, will be voted on in the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Those who propose and support this deceptively titled piece of legislation need to be exposed and this dangerous legislation needs to be defeated. Neither the proponents nor the legislation respect marriage at all. They promote the homosexual equivalency movement.

As we continue to defend true marriage - and the family and society founded upon it - it is absolutely essential that we become well informed and stand ready to defend the foundations of a free society.  Our work in defending true marriage serves the true common good of the whole society. Do not be duped into thinking otherwise.  

The leaders of the homosexual equivalency movement insist that homosexual sexual practices are morally equivalent to the sexual expression of marital love between a man and a woman. They now go further by insisting that every State make homosexual relationships legally equivalent to marriage. They are dedicated to building a society where the positive law of the Nation forces us all to call to be a marriage what can never be a marriage - or face the police power of the State and sanctions.

The truth about marriage is not simply a "religious" construct.  The Natural Law reveals - and the cross cultural history of civilization affirms - that marriage is between a man and a woman, open to children and intended for life. Marriage is the foundation for the family which is the privileged place for the formation of virtue and character in children, our future citizens. The family is the first society, first economy, first school, first civilizing and mediating institution and first government.

This Bill is a perfect example of the Orwellian "newspeak" accompanying the Cultural Revolution being waged by the homosexual equivalency movement. There are now two conflicting visions of the human person, human freedom, human flourishing and marriage and the family founded upon it as the first cell of a truly just society in the West.

This legislation calling itself the "Respect for Marriage Act of 2011" eviscerates the protections of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman for purposes of federal law and policy. It will force every State to recognize homosexual unions as marriages if the State from which the homosexual partners come from calls them "marriages." 

This has been the legal strategy of the Homosexual Equivalency Activists all along. There is an accelerating effort to force us to recognize homosexual partnerships as the moral and legal equivalent of marriage and then use the Police Power of the State to enforce such a restructuring of the social order on the rest of civil society.

The verbal engineering and sophistry employed by the Anti-Right to Life movement is being utilized in this effort. The moment the opponents of the Right to Life stole the word "choice" to refer to the taking of innocent life in the womb for any reason and at any point, it was only a matter of time before they reframed the language used in the current marriage debate.

Those who defend the real Right, the Right to Life, became the opponents of a "Right to Choose". That was only the first step. Look how far it has come. Now, even news reporters speak of something called an "abortion right". Abortion is an act; the intentional killing of a child in the womb. It can have no rights. Only human persons can have rights. The first among those rights is the Right to Life which is denied in every procured abortion.

When sexual behavior between two men or two women is viewed as providing the legal and moral foundation of a "right" to marry - and those who oppose this homosexual equivalency movement are characterized as being against the "freedom" to marry and "equal rights" - the revolutionary plan should be obvious to any honest observer.

The institutions of government should, when acting properly, defend marriage against those who would redefine it. Government has long regulated marriage for the common good. For example, the ban on polygamy and age requirements were enforced in order to ensure that there was a mature decision at the basis of the Marriage contract.

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For Judges or legislatures to grant some feigned legal equivalency to co-habiting paramours (homosexual or heterosexual) and then confer governmental benefits upon them does not further freedom it undermines it. It also does not serve the common good, it injures it.

To limit marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory now, nor has it ever been. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition. To now "confer" the benefits that have been conferred in the past only to stable married couples and families to homosexual paramours is bad public policy.

The enforcers of this new order, whether ruling from the bench or misusing their office in the Legislative and Executive branch, unchecked by any balance of power, have simply followed what the legal positivists have long proclaimed, "The law is what the courts say it is." They have also joined a cultural revolutionary force more potentially lethal to the common good than Chairman Mao's reign of terror was to mainland China.

Those who claim that accepting this Cultural Revolutionary strategy is a matter of "tolerance" are the most intolerant. They unveiled their long planned strategy of forcing their brave new world on the rest of us and allow no dissent. Notice how intolerant they are of those of us who, though respecting the dignity of every person including homosexuals, insist that marriage is what it is.

All people of good will who recognize the vital role that marriage and family serve in the formation of a truly just society must be courageous and persevere. Contact your representative and oppose the "Respect for Marriage Act" (S.B. 598). This Bill which seeks to destroy marriage and the family and society founded upon it.

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