MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ATTACKED: WILL YOU BE SILENT?
February 24th, 2006 by Brian
The Supreme Courts of Massachusetts and Washington could be issuing rulings in the next week or two that might legalize same-sex “marriage” beyond Massachusetts–and cause the issue to become an even bigger factor in our national politics.
Those who think the redefining of marriage will stop with same-sex “marriage” should read Stanley Kurtz’s recent National Review Online articles on Canada, the Netherlands and, especially, Sweden:
What does it mean when a movement wants simultaneously to formalize gay marriage, equate marriage with mere registered partnerships, equate registered partnerships with mere cohabitation, and then abolish marriage itself? It seems contradictory, but it all makes perfect sense once you realize that Sweden’s social liberals don’t support either gay marriage or registered partnerships out of any affection for marriage itself. On the contrary, Sweden’s social left is simply using gay marriage as a lever to achieve the abolition of marriage itself.
This is not how things were supposed to turn out according to the “conservative case” for gay marriage. Registered partnerships should have decreased cultural radicalism. Instead they’ve merely whetted the left’s appetite for more radical reforms.
Once again, Sweden is showing us a possible future. The idea that we can and should abolish marriage and recognize multi-partner unions has its advocates in America, though they may seem too few to be bothered with. We ought not, however, mistake their chances for long-term success. Those radical advocates recognize something that even the moderate proponents of gay marriage overlook or deny: gay marriage changes the way that young people see and understand their social world. The slope from gay marriage to polyamory and ultimately to no marriage is not slippery by accident, but by design.
Governor Mitt Romney and a legislative leader yesterday delivered unwelcome news to the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts, who plan to seek permission from the state to exclude gay and lesbian parents from adopting children through its social service agencies.
The governor said he was not authorized to give such an exemption, and State Representative Eugene L. O’Flaherty, the House chairman of the joint committee on the judiciary, predicted little support among lawmakers for any request by Catholic adoption agencies for an exemption from the state’s antidiscrimination policies.
”I would say there would not be an appetite to entertain that,” O’Flaherty said.
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