Marriage defined as one man and one woman is an artifact of Catholicism. Now that we are hastening to build a post Christian world, it will be discarded.
Sad but true. Guess it makes God’s choice a little bit easier.
I’m fairly certain that concept predates Catholicism.
“Marriage defined as one man and one woman is an artifact of Catholicism”
Al the people before Christ’s time would be surprised to hear that Catholics invented marriage!!
Actually, it is the Jewish invention——the elevation of marriage was their gift to the world which was the first elevation of woman in cultures. Of course, the decalogue was essential to Christians also.
Destruction of traditional marriage is to destroy the emotional health of boys and girls—blur right and wrong—destroy Christian Ethics-—to destroy the idea of Natural Laws (Truth)-—that which created the Constitution and USA.
Why? It is “Reason” that has to be ejected from society-—so that any type of artificial, atheist, Marxist society can be possible and believed. Marxism is irrational-—it erases differences of men and women and destroys family so that all children become the slaves of the state with no one devoted to them. The dehumanization is consistent with destruction of biological parents. That genetic interest in the past and future is destroyed with all traditions. That way-—the Ministry of Truth-—can create their “own” Truth.
All Tradition has to be destroyed so that children will never realize what “freedom” and Independence really means. The ideas of Locke/Adam Smith, etc., can be erased. They will be happy in their feudal (slave) state just like in The Brave New World.
Well, to my understanding all the religious groups that have accepted ‘gay marriage’ so far accepted civil divorce and remarriage first. Often you will read about some faith that believes gay marriage is possible but wont recognize their own members gay marriages until the state they are in also agrees. Which might be more insane than actually buyng into gay marriage in the first place.
Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.
Pope Leo XIII, 1880.
Freegards
It is not. It's not a Catholic idea, nor a Jewish one. Nobody can own it because it's a God idea.
It was instituted by God when He married the first couple He created and said in Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.