Go France!

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By Christine

ONE MILLION gathered in Paris today to protest against gay marriage!
I hadn’t been proud of my home country in a long time! Today I truly am!

Not long ago, one of my Goddaughters asked me on Facebook: “tell, me, my dear God Mother, what are your reasons against gay marriage?”
I answered, warning her that it couldn’t be a short answer…
Now I know better! It can be a short answer (at least at first)! And it doesn’t even have to be a “religious” answer (again, at first).
As Rabi Gilles Bernheim says, “it is not because people love each other that they systematically have the right to get married! For example, a man cannot marry an already married woman, even if they love each other. A woman cannot marry two men under the motives that she loves both and both want to be her husband. Or a father cannot marry his daughter even if their love is only paternal and filial! Even in the name of equality, tolerance, the fight against discrimination, and other principles, we cannot give the right to marriage to all those who love each other.”

Marriage is not only the public recognition of two people who love each other, or “the public recognition of a committed relationship between a man and a woman (or two adults) for their fulfillment.” says William May
As the USCCB declared on December 6th, 2012, marriage is, “the universal institution that unites a man and a woman with each other and with the children born from their union.” (Emphasis added).

Gay marriage wouldn’t take into account the fundamental right of children to have a mother AND a father, to know their roots, where they come from; in short, it would deliberately deny children their right to their identity, and, from that, to their psychological equilibrium. It doesn’t mean that a homosexual couple cannot be loving, or that they aren't capable of raising children. But they cannot give what they do not have. And what they do not have is essential to the good development of any child. Love is not enough. Love doesn’t give all of the basic psychological structures any child needs to know his/her genealogy in order to position himself/herself as an individual.

From the beginning of humanity and until the end of time, we are born male or female, in a chain of generations, and no one can ever change this!

Go France!