I received a newsletter concerning the same-sex marriage legislation that is being proposed for Canada. The newsletter was comparing Canada to Australia (a country which has legislated against same-sex marriages), and stressing that if same-sex marriage legislation is passed, it will have a profound detrimental impact on our society. While I do not deny this, the impression I received when reading this newsletter was that same-sex marriage legislation is the one key thing that is opposing traditional marriage in our society; almost as if to say that if the legislation were to be struck down, the state of marriage in our society would no longer be at risk. Here’s some excerpts from the newsletter:<\/p>\n
“how marriage is defined will profoundly affect our future stability and our success because it will directly affect families. They [the Australian government] understand that the future of Australia is tied to the strength of her families. Throughout history and across cultures, strong families have always been the essential foundation of strong, resilient and successful societies.” But don’t we understand that we no longer have strong families in this society? Divorce runs rampant in Canada.<\/p>\n
“Legalizing same-sex marriage would profoundly and negatively affect the future of the family in Canada or any other country that takes such an action. It would inevitably and irreversibly change the way our children and future generations would look at marriage and its relationship to the family. Instead of viewing marriage as we generally do today, as the ideal and desirable relationship within which to form a family and raise children, future generations increasingly would view it as little more than an official recognition of any two people’s professed affection for each other. If government devalues marriage and the family, as our Government proposes to do through this legislation, then the citizens will soon do so as well<\/strong>.” The government already devalues marriage; its citizens already devalue marriage. Divorce is an acceptable way of dealing with less than ideal marriages. The way our children view marriage has already been skewed. Our society has already been affected.<\/p>\n Just what battle do we think we’re fighting here? If we’re fighting to try to save the state\/value of marriage in our society, we’re already too late. We’re already drowning in the flood waters. Can’t we see it? Do we honestly think that if same-sex marriages are stopped, our marriages and the stability of our society will be restored? I don’t think there’s anything we can humanly do to stop this tide. The only one who can rescue us is God. And as long as we think that by our own human effort we will be able to make things right, we will continue to drown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I received a newsletter concerning the same-sex marriage legislation that is being proposed for Canada. The newsletter was comparing Canada to Australia (a country which […] Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}