Confronting the Unreality of Same Sex 'Marriage'

1/14/2013

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he considered "some of the many ways in which persons . . . make unreal professions, or seeing see not, and hearing hear not, and speak without mastering, or trying to master their words."

Newman says that "there cannot be a more apposite specimen of unreality" than realities based upon mere opinions, opinions that are formed "not by presenting a question in its real and true substance, but by adroitly colouring it, or selecting out of it some particular point which may be exaggerated, and dressed up, and be made the means of working on popular feelings."

"Everyone one has a right to love whom they choose"--the claptrap heard on the lips of many an unthinking advocate of homosexual "marriage"--is just such a species of unreality. It's not love that is involved in marriage, but conjugal love, and conjugal love requires, if one wants to remain in the world of reality, a man and woman.

I have the right to love my dog, or to love a bit of bourbon or a cigar now and then, but I certainly have no right--except in an unreal and phantasmagorical world--to marry my Pekingese, or my tumbler, or my puro.

"I have watched the wheels go round in case I might see the living creatures like the appearance of lamps, in case I might see the Living God projected from the Machine," wrote David Jones at the end of his poem "A, a, a Domine Deus."

Yes, as I pet my dog, drink my bourbon, smoke my cigars, read good books, write some articles, go to work, eat dinner, say my prayers, and do all the other things normal humans do, including being involved in this something-God-given-worked-with called marriage, I have watched the leftist political Machine work its wheels upon the living institution of marriage, this marvelous institution given to us by the Living God.

"I have said to the perfected steel, be my sister and for the glassy towers I thought I felt some beginnings of His creature, but A,a,a, Domine Deus, my hands found the glazed work unrefined and the terrible crystal a stage-paste . . . Eia, Domine Deus."

Like the Prophet Jeremiah whom Jones refers to, I stand aghast at the destruction on marriage wrought by the Godless left, the haters of nature and nature's God. I am simply amazed at the fact that our government--whose job it is to protect and defend this natural institution--is actually working against it! I stutter, stammer, even unto God: "A, a, a . . . ."

How can this be? "A, a, a . . . ." How can this most basic of God-given institutions be attacked, and how can the people consent? "A, a, a . . . ." How is it that there is not an uproar? "A, a, a . . . ." How is it the people do not see the wickedness, the insanity involved in same-sex "marriage." "A, a, a . . . ." How is it that they do not oust those from power who would despoil us from the something-God-given-worked-with thing, a wondrous thing, called marriage? "A, a, a . . . ."

How can these enemies of marriage take the "glazed work unrefined and the terrible crystal" of marriage, a something-God-given-worked-with, and turn it into "stage-paste," a work of our own hands, a brittle trinket, a fake bauble, a caricature of natural law? "A, a, a . . . ."

It's a mystery of sin. Unanswerable. Why do dogs eat their vomit? Why do some people enjoy skinning cats? Why do some kids crucify lizards? Why do some people inflict pain on others? Why do some men kill six-year old children with guns? Why do mothers put their children to death by the millions? Why do two men or two women want to mimic, ape, caricature, and blaspheme marriage? Why do they want the entire land to cooperate in their madness, their rebellion, their venture in unreality? Why do some men hate God and his works?

And so, like the poet David Jones, and like the prophets of old, and like all men of good sense, we must sometimes turn our cry unto the Lord to free us from the sins of our land which we seem powerless to stop. We must turn to God to help us to explain the humanly inexplicable, to answer the humanly unanswerable, to give solace to the humanly inconsolable, to make real once again what man has made unreal. It is then that the stutter turns to prayer:

"Eia, Domine Deus."

Oh Lord God! . . . .

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Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at agreenwell@harris-greenwell.com.
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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: homosexual marriage, gay marriage, marriage, natural institution, Andrew M. Greenwell

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DLL
4 months ago
Same sex attraction is to have enough respect for the same sex as to never have same sex sex.This also applies to children as well. Never have sex same or otherwise with children and certainly never babies. Opposite sex attraction is enough respect for the opposite sex so that sex is procreative and relations are saved until after the couple is married. That is what love and respect for each others sexuality means. That is true for every human being not just members of the Catholic Church. This is common sense. This sense of a common sense is the basis for the common law,now common law is being destroyed by the GBLT agenda. Gay,lesbian,bisexual,trans-sexual,excludes the rights of all heterosexuals,that is discrimination for those who wish to be obedient to the laws of God and the rules of common law,which is simple common sense. The law is becoming an impediment unto itself because it is losing its definition. The law should never be proposed and inacted on some principal of an agenda that has its basis in the kind of reasoning that basically proposes that the ultimate point of view is one where there is none at all. The church teaches right from wrong and so does all math and science which strives to to this as well. Even in training a dog their is a right and wrong way to do it. Their is a right and a wrong way in the way human beings relate to each other. The Catholic Church as well as any human resource department in any employment situation teaches right from wrong. The author of this article writes from a standpoint of love for others and that there is a right and wroong way in human relationships,not in disdain for others.
vance
4 months ago
Thank you Andrew for a great article. You touch on all the major points. The greatest point is that God created marriage and modern man is loath to accept it. I've made the point in the past that we can step outside religion and look at it in a pure scientific view. All of creation is heterosexual both organic and the inorganic. All organisms, save single cells, require a male-female component to reproduce. The laws of electricity works on positive-negative charges to function. When we try to put two magnets together at their same polls, they repulse. The opposite polls attract. This is why God says that sodomy ( Homosexuality ) is a rebellion against him. Because it is a rebellion against his creation which is the "Natural Order". Same sex attraction ( Homosexuality ) is a mental and spiritual disorder and should be treated as such.
Andrew M. Greenwell
4 months ago
@Tom McGuire: Thanks for your comments. You suggest that I am not compassionate, but I think that compassion must be built on truth, or it is false compassion. I am quite familiar with the struggle for purity and the difficulties of living an authentic human and Christian life, though mine have not happened to be involved in same-sex attraction. But it's not like those struggles are not part of my life, either, and I always ask for God's grace in the matter of chastity. I assure you by common consent that heterosexual persons suffer every bit as much a struggle for chastity as homosexual persons.

With respect to your question: your question is framed improperly. You ask "How does [a person born with an attraction for the same sex] enter into a relationship of love"?

By "relationship of love" you mean one of three things, I suppose.

First, let us suppose you mean by "enter into a relationship of love," love in the sense of "love your neighbor" or love of friendship, i.e., one without conjugal component. Then the answer to that question is that such a person must do so under the same restrictions and same conditions as any other person. Same sex attraction--supposing it is "a given, and not an opinion" as you dogmatically state--does not in any way change the patterns of love of neighbor or the love of friendship. It must be chaste, as it must be for any other human person.

If by "relationship of love" you mean a relationship involving conjugal sex, then a person with a same sex attraction has to have conjugal sex in the same way everyone else should: within a life-long marriage between a man and a woman that is exclusive and that is ordered to the procreation of children.

If by "love" you mean homosexual sexual activity, then you are playing games with words because homosexual genital activity is intrinsically disordered and cannot be, and never can be, and is always and in each instance opposed to, authentic love of the other person or authentic love of one's self. It cannot be the basis of a "relationship of love." It makes the mistake of equating (any kind of) sex with love. In such a case, the question itself is an oxymoron and is unanswerable (love is not equal to homosexual genital activity), is a loaded question by its implied assumptions (love equals homosexual genital activity), or collapses into a silly question, such as "How does [a person born with an attraction for the same sex] enter into homosexual genital activity"?
Tom McGuire
4 months ago
In your passion, I find no compassion for the person born with an attraction for the same sex. That is a given, not an opinion. How does that person enter into relationship of love?
abey
4 months ago
There is the difference between the Contract & the Covenant, where the former is to the convenience, the latter is to the truth by the reproduction, where the former is not anointed the latter is & hence Holy unto the Creator. Contracts are broken but not Covenants 'cause it is with the Lord. In terms of religion where is come the clash between the Pagan belief to the contracts & the True belief to the Covenant , the former is to the beliefs & ways of men whereas the latter is to the will of God which is the way of life, for that which is not to life is to death. So chose between life & death irrespective of what the Majority feels, for feelings are often deceptive & in this case sure is, to the Biblical words of the manner "Heaven & Earth may pass away but the word will remain" for in the beginning was the word & the word was with God & the word was God- The light of men for without it is darkness symbolized by these half naked protestors in the path to the nakedness -before God where contracts & contacts turn to dust like it happened in the very beginning.

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