This cartoon was published in the November edition of the Anglican Journal:
It refers to a report from Statistics Canada that claims a 42% increase in same-sex couples over the last five years. It seems the report is flawed, since room-mates who are married – not to each other – could have been counted as same-sex couples.
No matter: even if the report is accurate, the percentage of same-sex couples is still only at 0.69% of the total number of couples.
What is interesting about the Journal’s publishing of this cartoon is that, yet again, the compulsive obsession the church has with legitimising homosexual activity has blinded it to the transparently obvious fact that the future of the family does not reside – and can never reside – in people of the same sex being barrenly “married” to each other.
Where’s the self-congratulatory cartoon legitimising polygamy and sibling-incest marriage, which – as “marriage is every child’s birthright” – have a greater call to legitimacy than unions of no procreative potential? Or, is that a little too progressive for “progressives”?
That is to say of course, “their parents’ marriage is every child’s birthright.”
Hello Lisa,
The pandora’s box has been opened, as you suggest. I for one will not be surprised when groups of people start demanding that “group marriages” be accepted.
Taken from a comment from the blog of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) piece on a UK Mail article of 20 July 2012 on Elton John’s acknowledgement it will break his son’s heart to learn he has no mother. A link to which was embedded in an earlier Anglican Samizdat post.
It rather brings to mind the schizophrenia of totalitarianism George Orwell warned us about. Oh, and Sir Elton’s music is vacuous too.
“Elton John feels the prick of his moral conscience and managed only to speak a half-truth rather than face the whole truth. The child was abandoned by his mother – pre-emptively – and will learn that was willed by himself and his male sexual accomplice. There was no child in need whose interest could plausibly be best served by adoption.
The child would not have been conceived if not for the provider of a service, a woman who sold her body as surrogate … and two men who sought to use people in this manner to attain possession of a vulnerable and innocent human being.” “Ultimately this was about using a child to satisfy needy adults all round.
The motherless circumstance will break the child’s heart, he said. Not quite right. Elton John and his accomplice will break this child’s heart. And will do it again to another child, anyway.”
Tells you what the Apostate Club of Canada thinks of traditional marriage.