Monday, 22 October 2012
Celebrate the good of marriage while we still can
The Coalition for Marriage have produced this short and simple video celebrating the good of marriage. It would be a good idea for Christians to produce more publicity of this sort while we still can.
It seems that even before any law is passed redefining marriage, people are being discriminated against for speaking in a way that recognises and upholds marriage as between a man and a woman.
For example, Adrian Smith commented on his Facebook page that permitting same-sex ‘marriages’ to take place in churches was “an equality too far”. The taxpayer-funded Trafford Housing Trust judged that he was guilty of gross misconduct and demoted from his managerial post with a consequent cut of 40% in his pay. The Christian Institute is supporting his legal fight against this action. (See the report from Christian Concern.)
And there was me thinking that our rule of democracy meant that people were able to debate the rights and wrongs of proposed new laws.
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Urgh, I must say you need a strong stomach to watch this, much as I commend the Coalition's intentions. Looks like an embarrassing classroom discussion in PHSE.
I am afraid that over the last 20 odd years Britain has ceased to be a free country.
This affects everyone in society including those who hold non-politically correct views like us horrible subversive Catholics.
And also debate the rights and wrongs of any existing laws no matter how recently passed. Certain people would like to close down the debate as soon as/whenever a law is passed redefining marriage. While these people may accept that you can debate proposed laws they certainly don’t think that you can debate them once they have come into force.
Ah, now there's your mistake. We're not a democracy, and never have been. We are ruled by an oligarchy.
We in America are only about 5 years behind you Britons.....
I don't know what I think about that video. Obviously I support the Coalition and their aims, but I can't help feeling that they have presented marriage in a reduced way, focusing on physical complementarity and the best environment in which to bring up children, so as not to alienate those on the fence about this issue.
However, I do not see how Adrian Smith's comments amount to grpss misconduct: same-sex marriage is not legal and Cameron (without a leg to stand on under European law) has pledged to protect the rights of religious organisations who do not wish to perform same-sex marriages. As long as he hasn't added something along the lines of "if your neighbours are in favour of this law then kill them and put their heads in their front gardens as a warning to others" to his comment then surely there is no problem (unless of course he did it at work...). In this country we seem to have problems at both ends of the spectrum: dissent is not a mature contribution to discussion and debate is not bigotry. And don't get me started on the facebook/twitter criminals, that's a subject for another time.
An excellent video that puts across the principal purpose of marriage (the procreation and raising of children) simply and sensibly. Not sure why we need, as one comment says, to have strong stomachs to watch this one! It's not sexually explicit and it's aimed at adult voters, not children in a classroom. As far as those sitting on the fence, as another comment mentions, surely the point of this video is to convince the undecided. Preaching to the converted isn't a terribly useful thing to do!
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