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No Left Turns – Religion and politics in Canada

I would quote it, but there’s no good place to start.

Update:

Dr Douglas Farrow:

Consider this: When the definition of marriage is changed, the biological facts do not change. Men and women make babies, not men and men or women and women. In this respect the equality supposedly achieved by C-38 is achieved only on paper. In order to make homosexual unions more nearly equivalent to heterosexual unions, it is necessary either to find a way for the former to produce babies by technological means, or to deprive the latter of any special relationship to their babies. It is necessary, in other words, for the state to take control over human reproduction. And in taking control over human reproduction the state exercises a tyrannical power.

It’s not that far-fetched an idea.

Via The Politic who has lots of links. (lil’ update: augh!)

Speaking of which, this reminds me of something I read a little while ago…Ah, here, the (sort of) official Catholic take:

Wheat & Weeds – Adam & Steve in Nebraska (May 12)

There is more to be said on that theme, but all I really want to say here is that society can have all the best will in the world towards persons of homosexual orientation, and still not affirm “gay marriage” as a good. Andrew Sullivan and others go ballistic when they read that same-sex orientation is inherently disordered, but it is. This doesn’t mean what Sullivan says it does. It doesn’t mean that homosexuals are more likely to steal or murder or cheat on their taxes than others; it means that same-sex desire is in itself disordered. That this is not crushingly obvious to us is a function of our reluctance to speak frankly about what same-sex attraction means lest we be labeled bigots and haters and have eggs thrown at our homes. What it means is this: deep in the heart of man is the drive to perpetuate the species – a drive to plant his seed in a life-giving womb in order that he may live forever through his progeny. When this drive becomes directed not towards the womb, but towards. . .ahem. . .another place, well, can anything be more obvious than that somehow something has gone wrong –that this is inherently disordered? Same-sex attraction frustrates this fundamental, life-giving and life-affirming drive. It doesn’t mean that everyone who suffers from this attraction is evil, anymore than a person with a disposition towards alcoholism is evil. But we don’t tell the alcoholic, go ahead drink all you want. We expect him to control his impulses, even as we judge his occasional benders mercifully when we know his weakness.

It is one thing to say, sorry, but for personal reasons I can’t contribute to the perpetuation of the species. It is of another order entirely to proclaim that because one can’t the entire culture must be forbidden to prefer the womb (forgive me, but we must be blunt) to the anus. The culture that would result from such a turn would be truly the culture of death, in that it would ipso facto affirm that it is not in any way important to engender another generation. It would be virulently anti-child, because a people obsessed with itself is threatened by kids, seeing them as competitors and usurpers rather than as a precious link to immortality. And it would be profoundly anti-woman, inasmuch as a society which thinks same-sex marriage is just as good as traditional marriage is saying there is nothing important or special about the unique contribution of the feminine to culture. The womb, child-bearing? Whatever. Utterly insignificant.

My whole take on this, if you were wondering, is I honestly don’t care what you do (hard to believe, I know, but I don’t pray for gay people, I don’t light candles, I don’t condescendingly “love them despite their sins” and all the sort of thing that makes gay activists quake in terror, I really don’t care), but don’t mess with my religion, and marriage is a religion institution*. I’m not a great Catholic, but the absolute (literally) least I can do is defend my faith. If I can’t do that, then what’s the point of any of it?

*Not just a religious institution: a Holy Sacrament. Holy like the Quran, to all the liberals out there who don’t get it.