Editorial: The Homosexual Equivalency Movement and their Judicial and Legislative Accomplices

By Deacon Keith Fournier
2/10/2013
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

In this new judicial and legislative alchemy, complicit judges and legislators claim the power to change the truth

Marriage is ontologically between a man and a woman, ordered toward the union of the spouses and open to procreation which forms the foundation for family. These new judicial and legislative alchemists are as mistaken in this claim as their ancestors were in their claim that they could change cheap metal into gold or mix an elixir which would overcome death.

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LONDON, England (Catholic online) - On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 the British House of Commons decided they were legislative alchemists able to change the structure of reality by passing bills which amount to nothing but a form hocus pocus. So, they passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, backed by Prime Minister David Cameron.

The bill grants equivalent legal status between homosexual paramours and true married couples. It states specifically that homosexual and lesbian couples can now get 'married' in both civil and religious ceremonies. The only caveat is that the religious institution must consent. It may be only a matter of time before they are compelled to do so.

The bill was rightly opposed by the Catholic Church. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth told Vatican Radio, "Naturally, I am very disappointed that Parliament wishes, in an Orwellian manner, to redefine the concept of marriage for England and Wales. The proposed change will have catastrophic consequences for marriage as an institution, for family life in Britain, and for all human relationships, not least among our young."

This effort is spreading throughout the West as she rushes headlong into decline. In the United States, one of the clearest defenders of marriage is Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. In a recent column entitled "Legislation creating "same-sex" marriage: What's at stake?" he gives one of the most lucid and compelling presentations of the Natural Law basis of our position on the unchangeable nature of marriage.

It should be read by all people of good will who seek to defend against the effort to destroy marriage. Efforts to simply appeal to the Bible, though well intended, used by so many of our evangelical protestant friends, have little weight in a society which has rejected the authority of the Bible. This is why the Catholic Church must take the lead as she has done in the Struggle to defend the Right to Life. We have a developed Natural Law Tradition to speak from in this epic moral and social struggle.

We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution in the West. The foundation of our Western societies has always been the first society, marriage between one man and one woman and the family founded upon it. It is the first government, first economy, first school, first religious institution and first mediating institution. Marriage has been clearly understood as arising out of the consent between one man and one woman and intended for life. It has been given a privileged and protected legal and social status because it serves the true common good of society.

Marriage has been the primary civilizing institution, constituted for the bearing and caring of children wherein they can be nurtured, loved, taught and prepared for life in broader communities. This understanding of marriage has long been accepted in the West as having been revealed by the Natural Law. It was the basis of our organizing vision of society and informed our philosophy of governance, including the place of subsidiarity. Even our educational system recognized that the family is the first school and parents are the first teachers.

These judges and legislators are trying to make something which is ontologically incapable of being a marriage, Homosexual Partnerships, into a marriage by Judicial Fiat or legislative dictate. This is why I call it a new form of alchemy. In the Middle Ages, some Alchemists purported that they were able to transmute common metals into gold. Others claimed they could create an elixir of life which would prevent death. Neither claim was true. Folklore grew up among people of that age alleging the existence of a philosopher's stone which held the key to their being able to accomplish these impossible claims.

Now, fast forward with me into our own day and consider the claims of those who want to use the Court system or the legislature as a new kind of philosopher's stone. This is precisely what homosexual equivalency groups are doing. I use that phrase to refer to those who seek to use the Police Power of the State to enforce a new social order.

They mouth the language of constitutional law, they frame their debate in the language of rights, they purport to be defending equality, but their arguments have no Natural Law basis. A Judge can call anything a right in this age of legal positivism but that does not make it one. A tyrannical legislature can call something what it can never be but it does not change the structure of reality.

The architects of this cultural revolution are skilled wordsmiths who use language as a weapon. They have shifted the popular argument with words which they have stolen and claimed as their own. Now, instead of defending marriage against those who seek to undermine it by making any cohabiting ...

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Paul-Emile Leray
3 months ago
To Joseph: The last 5 or so lines of your post jumped out at me and caught my eye. Something that might interest you:
Title: Much Ado About Everything
Author: Peter Milward (SJ)
Paul-Emile Leray
Joseph
3 months ago
Some of the details of what the Conservative Party (aided by the Liberals) have done. Mr Cameron, the Conservative Party leader (that's right, the Conservative Party) and Prime Minister, popped up one day out of the blue and said his government would pass gay marriage. There had been no mention of gay marriage in the party manifesto in the run up to the General Election, and no discussion within the conservative party or the nation concerning this matter. More, Mr Cameron announced that though people could submit their opposition to such a law the government would take no notice of it and would pass the law anyway. I kid you not. This was openly stated and has been carried out. The largest petition ever to oppose a government law was submitted to the government, hundreds of thousands of people protesting against the measure. All were ignored and the law has now been passed. It will be vetted by the Chamber of Lords and will pass into full implementation some time in May 2013. This measure was not even requested or urged by the gay community in the UK, many of whom are atheists and have nothing but contempt for the idea of getting married in a Church. But it gets worse. Cameron has promised that UK law will protect churches, teachers, marriage counselors, public workers, parents (re gay sex education in schools) i.e. anyone against being forced to do anything against their conscience. This is hogwash. Cameron knows, as everyone does, that British law is subject to European Union law and anyone who takes a case there against anyone opposing gay marriage or gay equality, in any area, will win. So churches will soon be forced to carry out gay marriages. Teachers, even in faith schools, will soon be forced to teach gay marriage and how it is equal to heterosexual marriage. Parents will be convicted and fined, possibly jailed, if they withdraw their children from school sex education classes. Teachers will be fired if they do not teach gay marriage. Any worker will lose his job if he opposes gay marriage or gay equivalency. The England that used to exist died last week. A new England is rising - a sinister, threatening, anti-democratic, anti-liberty nation. Especially when one considers that the Cameron government passed another law at the same time as the gay marriage bill. Hidden in all the furore: this bill will make it possible for government bodies and agencies to accuse private citizens of crimes but the person accused will not be allowed to know what crime he is accused of: everything will be heard in secret courts and the evidence presented by the agencies will never be published. Again, I kid you not. This is modern England. The England of Shakespeare, Henry V, Robin Hood, The battle of Britain, of Nelson, of Cromwell, of Elizabeth I, the England of the 'Mother of Parliaments', of Magna Carta is dead. So beware America. Take heed. The same forces that are now beginning to crush the British people are also at work in your country. Defend yourselves and your families now, before it is too late.
Robert
3 months ago
Pray for the Boys Scouts and their leadership. Pray they listen to our Lord. The Girl Scouts did not and now the leftist feminist national leaders have corrupted the mission.

If we lose both the Girls Scouts and the Boy Scouts the secular world will have our children.
Robert
3 months ago
To defeat evil one must be able to identify it. Our political leaders are telling us what is evil is good and what is good is evil. Our spiritual leaders are shy about speaking out and identifying evil as to not offend anyone.

"Bless you who are persecuted ...all because of me, your reward will be in heaven."

May we all take comfort in the words of our Lord.
Clinton
3 months ago
Dear Deacon Fournier,

The Peace of Christ to you!

Thank you for once again helping us Christians to recollect ourselves in this ongoing battle against the spiritual entropy of the new world order. As Christians, we really do need to hear our pastors speaking out courageously against the anti-human and anti-Christ attacks we face. It's so difficult to see my county (Canada) fall, within my own lifetime, from at least a veneer of Christian morality to a place of spiritual derangement and psychological insanity. It feels like the rug is being constantly pulled out from under my life, day after day. Thank you, dear Deacon, for your constant encouragement! Also, I pray that people who have the opportunity will go to Mass more than just once a week. We really need the power of the Lord to radiate in our lives during the cataclysmic struggles of our times. Let us love in His truth, helping our neighbours to see beyond the masks and costumes that they wear as they attempt to disguise themselves from God!

Your brother in Christ,

Clinton
timothy canezaro
3 months ago
Another great article Deacon Fournier. In all the places where these atta Marriage & Family, I too am struck with the audacity of the politicians to believe in their self appointed authority to rewrite the nature of Marriage Faith and Reason. Let those politicians be put on call in Illinois, Minnesota, and rhode islan Phillipines, Costa Rica, France, Ireland, and England that We the People th Faith in the Creator will vote them out of office and a new breed of politi respect the Creator, Mother Earth, each and every human Life and those as Life, Marriage & Family. Praying People will Unite and take on the Secular forces at work in the world.
Mathew Thankachen O.Praem
3 months ago
I am not surprised at the news that Homo-sexual, Lesbian Equivalency is legalized in the British Parliament and Judiciary. often, Politicians look more for " cote banks" and " convenience" rather than " Convictions". Religion and Church is the " moral authority". What if the majority Protestant Church itself justifies " Homosexuals and Lesbians" even to be ordained as priest and bishops, what credibility do they have and for their voice in the parliament?? Any misuse of nature, whether human or ecology will not go unpunished. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is only a symbolic expression of the " reign of immorality" which itself contains the " sulfur" to be burned. No accomplices of human agency can alter reality. AIDS and MORE AIDS will be the outcome The moral dehydration of Europe should be a lesson for the rest of the world. Truly, family should become the expression of "Fa" = father and "MI"= mummy - when come together " lee"= truly a " Glee". A " Famiglee" with faith in Jesus and his Word can gradually change the world.

Mathew Thankachen O.Praem
rafaelmarie
3 months ago
Sin should not equivalent to a Sacrament.

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