Report on Same-Sex Marriages [Part 5] - Graham Wood

‘POLICY EXCHANGE’ REPORT - SAME SEX MARRIAGE.

AN OPEN LETTER TO COALITION MPs.

The Ideological Divide. [Part 5]

This lies at the very centre of the deep divisions between the government and advocates of homosexual "marriage" on one hand, and opponents and supporters of traditional God-given marriage on the other.

Natural law, the weight of a general consensus, including that of all the major world religions, all add up to the recognition that marriage is essentially a heterosexual union of a man and a woman for the procreation of children. “Marriage has existed in all cultures for thousands of years …. One man and one woman to the exclusion of all others for life….. It is not up to governments to redefine marriage, but simply to recognise it for what it is, and to promote and protect it as a unique institution. Same sex marriage is an oxymoron, like a four wheeled bicycle or a two storey bungalow)” (4).

Similarly: “Marriage by its very nature and essence is about two people of different genders coming together. While marriage may have accidental predicates, such as the duration of the ceremony, the particular ages of the participants, whether it is a church wedding or not, its essential predicate is the one man/one woman requirement.

This gendered nature of marriage is its essential defining feature. Take away the two genders and you no longer have marriage. Simply redefining something does not change its ultimate reality. Marriage is still about a man-woman relationship, and calling homosexual ‘marriage’ marriage does not make it so.

Peter Saunders comments: “to legalise SSM also involves complex policy choices. First the Government has to decide whether it wants civil partnerships to continue. According to the consultation the Government wants there to be two legal options for homosexuals (civil partnerships and marriage), but only one for heterosexuals (namely marriage). This is hardly equality. Surely this state of affairs is wide open to legal challenge by an unmarried heterosexual couple on discrimination and human rights grounds?” (5).

Homosexual “marriage” therefore is a deeply divisive ideological issue, for the “gay-rights” movement is instinctively totalitarian. It seeks nothing less than the total and complete acceptance of gay marriage and the repudiation of marriage as it has existed through all human history. However, we elect MPs into office to govern, not to promote their own ideological theories from positions of power at Westminster.

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4. Peter Saunders.

5. Ibid.