[Ransomed]

It’s from here:

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_10021880_arcanum_en.html

He was writing about civil divorce and remarriage at the time. His mitre would have spun off his head if someone would have explained ‘gay marriage’ to him. To the state in the modern era, marriage is simply whatever judges, pols, or 50% +1 of the voting public thinks it is at any one time. It was always a danger, and the longer it goes on the more people are conditioned to think that marriage comes from and is defined by the state.

Freegards

[kearnyirish2]

“To the state in the modern era, marriage is simply whatever judges, pols, or 50% +1 of the voting public thinks it is at any one time. It was always a danger, and the longer it goes on the more people are conditioned to think that marriage comes from and is defined by the state.”

That is the source of the erosion of Christianity in general; when Christian churches started wavering on reproductive/family issues in the first half of the twentieth century, the slide down the slippery slope began. Now here we are, with some “christian” churches applauding this ruling.