At last, the clear and compelling account of the threat same-sex marriage poses to our deepest freedoms, from one of Australia's finest church leaders, Bishop Anthony Fisher of Parramatta. This talk was given to the Thomas More Society yesterday, and published at ABC Online - HERE. It is also a call to courage in defence of the deepest truths of human nature, for the sake, ultimately, of our own children. Spread this talk far and wide!
Share...Whether it is restaurateurs, athletes, broadcasters, psychiatrists, school teachers, rabbis, inn-keepers or politicians, no one is exempt from this ferocious campaign to silence advocates of marriage as traditionally understood. The view that marriage is between a man and a woman, which was common to people of every known religion, philosophy and culture in history till now has suddenly become unspeakable. To achieve this, the SSM lobby have cleverly shanghaied the language of race equality, repeatedly declaring that marriage redefinition is "inevitable," that eight out of ten people support the change, and that opponents have no arguments to offer, only neo-Nazi hatred or (worse) "religion."
Of course, for now there will be the outward shows of civil debate and promises of religious exemptions, but it's an open secret amongst SSM advocates that any such exemptions will be temporary and that religious organisations will be required to fall into line in due course. "Gay rights" trump rights of conscience, belief and religious practice every time.
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...There is a truth about marriage deep in the heart of every human person, and a wisdom about marriage, shared by people of faith. Now, more than ever, we must proclaim it with clarity and charity, as St Thomas More did. To say that redefining marriage won't affect our community's understanding of marriage is a lie we must resist. So too the pressures to bully us into silence.
The fact is: there's nothing inevitable about SSM. Human freedom is the perpetual foil of all inevitability theses, a lesson the Marxists had to learn the hard way. The future is the product of human deliberation and choice -what we make, under divine grace, in and through our individual and common actions. So can we, together, turn this thing around? By God's grace, I believe we can.
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