Legalize Gay Marriage? No, It’s Against the Natural Law
John Uschold of Spotsylvania wrote an excellent defense of marriage in today’s Free Lance Star:
Until recently, there seemed to have been a consensus among societies with monotheistic traditions that all civil law was rooted in natural law, which is written upon created order and, as the Apostle Paul put it, “graven on the heart of man.”
Natural law is God’s witness even to societies which do not acknowledge him. Since time immemorial most healthy cultures have shared a belief that it is wrong to murder, steal, lie, commit adultery, and commit certain sexual acts considered deviate–and the Bible is clear on the sinful nature of homosexuality.
According to Princeton legal philosopher Robert George in his book “The Clash of Orthodoxies,” matrimonial law reflects both the biblical and natural-law understandings that marriage unites the spouses as a single procreative unit. George underscores this by stating that homosexual acts have no relationship to procreation and can’t unite persons organically. Thus, these acts cannot be “marital”–meaning homosexual relationships cannot be marriages.
Further, philosopher J. Budziszewski writes in his book “What We Can’t Not Know”: “To call procreation the purpose of marriage is not arbitrary.A legislature [or a court] can no more turn sodomitical unions into marriages than it can turn dogs into cats; it can only unravel the institution of marriage by sowing confusion.”
We should not seek to normalize homosexuality or any other sexual aberration. This has nothing to do with imposing any particular religion on the secular state. While rejecting on the one hand the movement that claims tolerance of homosexual behavior in the name of freedom of the individual and of moral progress, we must also resist the popular reaction of persecution and ostracism and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ to “hate the sin, but love the sinner,” ever mindful that, though God is the judge, sinners are not loved into salvation without repentance.
Absolutely outstanding. The book that he quotes entitled Clash of Orthodoxies is a great book that I highly recommend. You can order it online or see if they have a copy at your nearest bookstore. Or for a great review, check out First Things.