‘Yes’ vote would devalue marriage
THE campaign to allow gay marriage is part of a Western World lobbying campaign started in the USA about 40 years ago.
The campaign is well funded and supported by multi-millionaires and big business in the States, and by multi-national companies. Atlantic Philanthropies, owned by Chuck Feeney, has given financial support the campaign here.
The movement has become so powerful that it has ‘captured’ Governments, legislatures, courts, in USA and Europe, persuading them to allow gay marriage.
Persons with a homosexual tendency are our brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. However, the active homosexual way of life is not one to be encouraged or promoted.
It suffers from two particular disadvantages: it does not allow procreation and is subject to higher levels of disease, especially among the men and a consequential lower expectation of life than the rest of the population.
A Yes vote in the Referendum would do nothing to change this; instead it would devalue marriage between a man and a woman by reducing its meaning in the Constitution to ‘grotesque nonsense’ ( Words of John A Murphy of UCC. Irish Times letters, May13, 2015).
This is not a government of good faith (recall Fine Gael u-turn on abortion in 2013). Its intentions are suspect, based on the manipulative way it bounced this on the electorate, giving very little preparation by way of a White Paper and by passing in advance, with indecent haste, the far reaching Children and Family Relations Bill, which does away with the terms ‘father’ and ‘mother’.
Be assured that this referendum is the beginning of an assault on our Christian constitution, which has worked well in the past to protect the people from the natural waywardness of governments.
If the referendum passes, this government (and the government to follow) will be encouraged to put forward more revisions of the constitution until its provisions are watered down to those of the model of a modern pagan state, which has emerged on the European mainland already (for example: The Netherlands and Belgium).
Much of the argument on the No side has been to do with the welfare of children of young age. We must also be concerned for teenagers, who generally go through a period of angst as regards who they are, as their sexual maturity takes place.
During this time they are vulnerable to suggestions they may be gay, though they may simply be passing through a temporary phase of same-sex attraction. A Yes vote would allow such teenagers to be more exposed to believing they are gay.
In fact, the Taoiseach has confirmed in a recent statement that schools would be obliged to teach children about same-sex marriage, regardless of the school’s beliefs.
Vote No to protect our Constitution and our young people from harmful influences. A Yes vote will do very little for the real problems of the gay community, but it will devalue the institution of marriage for many years to come.
Vote NO.