Pope’s letter calls for openness to human life

Carolyn Moynihan
Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical letter, “On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth”, discusses a wide spectrum of social realities, among them the need for openness to new human life, which, he says, “is at the centre of true development”, and protection of the family founded on “marriage between a man and a woman, the primary vital cell of society”.

http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/popes_letter_calls_for_openness_to_human_life/

Privatizing Marriage is not the Answer to the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

by Jennifer Roback Morse

Far from settling the marriage debate, ‘getting the state out of marriage’ will reduce liberty, leave cultural questions simmering, and harm our nation’s children.

One proposed solution to the divisiveness of the same-sex marriage debate is to have the government get out of the marriage business altogether. This proposal is appealing because it seems to remove marriage from the realm of political contentiousness. We could mimic a market-type solution, in which individuals can make their own decisions about the meaning of marriage, and we need not make any collective decision. But these appearances are deceiving. We need to think through what it actually means to say that the government should “get out of the marriage business.”

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/viewarticle.php?selectedarticle=2009.03.10.001.pdart

Prop 8's passing secures confidence in Canada

Jennifer,

Congratulations for the extraordinary efforts you and so many others deployed!


Failure to pass the amendment would have also dealt a severe blow to efforts in other jurisdictions, including Canada, to re-establish the rightful place of the child within man-woman marriage.



The battle is not over. It would be very surprising to see opponents of man-woman marriage abandon the fight. If public support for ssm was to increase in time, could they not launch an initiative to reverse yesterday’s gain at some future election? This means we have collectively been given a reprieve, much like France with last year’s election of Sarkosy. This is why it will be necessary to establish, in law, the rights of the child to a mother and a father.



Sincerely and gratefully,

A Ruth Institute Marriage Champ

San Diego Council Members Think they Can Decide for San Diegans

"City Council votes 6-2 to oppose Prop. 8" reads the headline from the San Diego Union Tribune.

Read the article here. Add your comment to the 249 already posted. Clearly not everyone agrees with the council's decision!