Something to listen for ...
It seems that many commentators are, in the main, saying one of two things about marriage in light of the last week's news items. Some say that marriage is for the spouses, an arrangement or institution for them.
Others say that it's for the spouses, and also for the children that result from their union. The latter commentators know what's up, and they're the ones I listen to more closely. They include Francis Cardinal George and Rush "there's hope for him yet" Limbaugh.
And by the way, Cardinal George also knows the score:
Marriage predates our present government or any other and predates, as well, the founding of the Church. Marriage is not the creature of state or church, and neither a government nor the church has authority to change its nature. A government that claims such authority becomes totalitarian.
Seems as though the sky is growing dark and the wind is picking up. Have the last few decades been the calm before the storm?
Posted by billw at August 6, 2003 11:11 AMEven lesbian atheist Camilia Paglia says gays are going too far. She says anyone who knows history knows that the "centre cannot hold" when a society becomes decadent which would include the oxymoronic "gay marriage" (to her credit, she is against it for that reason).
Posted by: TS O'Rama at August 6, 2003 03:31 PMMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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