Letters

Homosexual 'marriage'

Arnold Jago

Contents - Dec 2007 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Liturgy: light at the end of the tunnel - Michael Gilchrist Liturgy: Australian archbishops report progress with new English Mass translations - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences - Br Barry Coldrey Catechetics: Religious education in Catholic schools: the role of parish priests - Michael Gilchrist Church History: Interesting aspects of ecumenical councils - Frank Mobbs Britain: British Catholicism: the salt has lost its flavour - John Haldane 1962 Missal: Australian bishops support Benedict XV's liberalising of the Latin Mass - AD2000 Report Architecture: Did Vatican II recommend the removal of altar rails? - M. Cassey Letters: Dissent - Brian Bibby Letters: Far-sightedness of Father Purcell - Fr Brian Harrison OS Letters: Response - Don Gaffney Letters: Narrow way - F. Thims Letters: Latin Mass - Carol V. Phillips Letters: Pope's Masses - Paul Martin Letters: True Church - Peter D. Howard Letters: Homosexual 'marriage' - Arnold Jago Letters: Unbaptised infants - Lawrence R. Hurley Letters: Archaeology - Ann Marie Streda Events: Latin Masses for Christmas in Caulfield and Kew Books: JESUS, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH by Pope Benedict XVI - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT - Paul Woodbury (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD Books Reflection: May we deepen our longing for the Lord's coming - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd opposes homosexual marriage and homosexual lobby groups are 'outraged'.

Yes, giving homosexual adults the 'right' to raise children sounds nice - until you realise it extinguishes the child's right to have a mother and father.

We've known for thousands of years that mother and father together are the best combination to rear the next generation. Recent research, e.g., Sotirlos Sarantakos, 'Children in Three Contexts', Children Australia, Vol 21 (1996), 23-31, confirms it.

Marriage is a contract involving mother, father and children - also the state, which is obliged to protect children's interests.

Traditional societies always considered the marriage contract also to involve God - making it something not lightly to be discarded.

ARNOLD JAGO (DR)
Mildura, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 20 No 11 (December 2007 - January 2008), p. 15