Previously
I posted on the letter from the seven bishops of the State of Michigan
denouncing the federal district court’s recent decision to overturn the 2004
voter-approved Michigan Marriage Amendment, which upheld the truth that
marriage can only ever be between one man and one woman. This judicial decision is further proof that the shared mind
of American culture has darkened.
It was God Himself who created
marriage when He created Adam and Eve and ordered them to “be fruitful and
multiply” (Gen 1:22). Here the Father ordered marriage toward the transmission of human life.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs the faithful that marriage exists
for the reciprocal good
of the partners (husband
and wife are called to help each other get to Heaven) and the procreation and
education of children. These two purposes cannot be
separated, for “What
therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." (Mt 19:6).
Marriage belongs to
God, and He has a design for it;
thus, no one may interfere with His purpose. As the bishops wrote,
“Marriage is and can only ever be a unique relationship solely between one man
and one woman, regardless of the decision of a judge or future electoral vote.
Nature itself, not society, religion or government, created marriage”.
God strengthens husband and wife through the Sacrament of Matrimony so that their
love, fixed in sacrifice for each other and their offspring, can witness God’s
love for us. This is how married couples can take part in the new
evangelization – to make God known to the world through honoring His plan for
marriage.
In my book I discuss how contraception also interferes
with God’s plan for marriage, separating as it does procreation from the
marital act. So, too, same-sex
“marriages” interfere with the Divine plan. God made male and female and
blessed their joining together. As the bishops stated, life cannot originate
from use of the sexual faculty by two people of the same gender: “The
biological realities of male and female and the complementarity they each bring
to marriage uniquely allows for the procreation of children”.
It is important for us to be well-founded
in our understanding of marriage as being between one man and one woman, and be
courageous in defending it, as the increasingly secular culture would undermine it if good people do nothing.
What is paramount is that marriage belongs to God and He has a
plan for it: “For I know
the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to
give you a future and a hope.” (Jer 29:11).
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