Saturday, January 19, 2013

Right to Marriage?

by Christine
Today I received a personal message on Facebook from a long time friend from France.
This friend has 4 grown children, but he has never married and has lived his whole adult life in cohabitation. He's always been on the far left side, ecologist, rebellious to any faith, religion, law, etc.. A pure product from 1968 who stayed stuck there.
His message was a "comic" showing 2 men hand in hand saying:
"It is sad that nowadays people demonstrate not to gain rights but to make sure other people do not get rights."
It made me really sad... but after all, what does he know about marriage?
He has always seen marriage as an alienating institution, an absurd and outdated heritage from a traditionalist society. Our French president, by the way, must think the same with 5 children from 2 different women he never married, and living now with a not-yet-divorced woman! Isn't it paradoxical to hear them support "gay marriage?" Why would someone who has always rejected marriage defend and support "gay marriage?" "Gay marriage" is NOT marriage, it just mimics marriage. And we know well that anything that mimics something good has evil roots.
We are often accused of 'intolerance.' Yet those who prone "tolerance" are the ones who rudely and aggressively throw garbage at us for speaking the truth. Marriage cannot be reduced to a mere legal right.

Tous pour le Mariage Facebook profile picture
The same day, we also received a short video of a drunkard at the French demonstration who was yelling: "A father, a mother, it's not complicated! IT'S NATURAL! Everybody wants a father and a mother! I want a father and a mother! I'm not going to go home and say Hi dad! Hi dad! Everybody wants a home with a dad AND a mom!..." In his drunkenness he was much wiser than our ecologist friend who should at least understand the "natural" aspect of the whole thing.

Still the same day, I received another short note, from a French psychoanalyst friend this time:
"The probable unconscious fantasy of homosexuals is a fantasy of omnipotence. To get married you need two different people. Or getting married with the same is like getting married with oneself. It says I refuse to be in need of another..."

The question of equal rights is for the "feel good-do good" and it causes much damage. As I said above, marriage is not a question of rights, and deep in our hearts, we all know it.
So what is behind all this? As Gilles Bernheim says: the goal is to undermine the foundations of the individual and the family.
I guess our civilization is on the verge of disappearing.  It's not rocket-science, just look back at the Greeks and the Romans... "When anthropologist J. D. Unwin studied the origins and development of eighty civilizations, he discovered a profound connection between the vitality of a society and the strength of its marriages and families. He concluded that any society that did not direct its sexual energies toward the good of marriage and family would not last." (Jason Evert-2004- citing Donald DeMarco, 1999)
Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris
For those of you who speak French, here is the complete essay from Gilles Bernheim, Chief Rabbi of France.

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