Posted on 05/06/2018 5:16:12 PM PDT by marshmallow
Parliamentary inquiry into religious freedom told that laws should help people with differing views on marriage ‘live and let live’
Senior Australian Catholics have warned that marriage equality should not be a matter of “winner takes all” five months after unsuccessfully advocating a no vote in the postal survey which led to its legalisation.
Fourteen years after the Howard government defined marriage in the civil law as exclusively between a man and woman – a move supported by the Catholic church – Michael Casey from the Australian Catholic University (ACU) told a parliamentary inquiry into religious freedom that laws should help people with differing views on marriage “live and let live”.
At a hearing on Wednesday numerous witnesses from organised religions told the joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade inquiry that marriage equality has changed Australian culture and laid bare the fragility of protections for religious freedom.
Casey, who is the director of the PM Glynn Institute, a public policy institute within the ACU, said there are different views in society about “what a marriage is” and how far it extends.
Casey said that rather than requiring one view of marriage be validated by “forcing people who don’t agree ... to endorse or cooperate with it, we should as much as possible be creating a space to live and let live” and allow religious people to organise their affairs “consistent with their own beliefs”.
He warned that forcing people to accept others’ views of marriage would lead to “more conflict and acrimony in public debate”.
The Catholic bishop of Broken Bay, Peter Comensoli, told the inquiry that religious people need to be able to lawfully express their views in “all dimensions of their life”.
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So then, those who believe in traditional marriage cannot “force” their views on others, but those who believe in homosexual marriage and God knows what else, are allowed to force their views on the rest of us.
On marriage, and other issues too, we are dealing with values, and whose values will be reflected in laws and social policies and social norms.
It’s not a matter of forcing values on people, it’s a matter of whose values will be the predominant values.
It’s 2018 and these pointy heads still don’t realize the whole ‘gay marriage’ thing was about picking an issue and then punishing groups who they know can’t compromise on the issue. Also it just cements the idea that the civil authorities define marriage, which has always been awful for society.
Freegards
The leftists who are forcing homosexual marriage on all.of us, are doing so as a winner take all approach. Why is it ok for them, but not for the rest of us?
Heaven and Hell are “Winner take all propositions.”
The Laodicean Catholic Church better be careful
People have always been free to marry anyone or anything they want. What’s at issue is whether the government should force others to acknowledge it and sanctify it.
This isno’t just going to affect the Catholic Church. It’s going to affect every church in Australia. The “Gay Marriage” issue has been weaponized to socially de-norm and legally penalize any institution (parish, school, church-supported social service like adoption) that won’t totally cave to the LGBT’s.
The more empowered pro-gay forces become the more that those pro-gay forces will impose their ideology on everyone else.
One standard is going to win.
Period.
Mariage should be a private contract between one man and one woman.
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