MARRIAGE EQUALITY?

When I read this article on MARRIAGE EQUALITY, I thought at first it was written by a very conservative Catholic who disagreed with the bishops of Washington State who were using secular arguments against same sex marriage rather than religious arguments. Then I realized that the writer was mocking the bishops stand on heterosexual marriage and would have done so whether or not the arguments were secular or religious. It is just more Catholic bashing and bigotry but politically correct bashing and bigotry, the kind that political and religious liberals like.

I think bishops and all Catholics have to use reason to promote the Church's understanding of marriage which has also been secular society's understanding of marriage for thousands of years. I don't think secularists are going to be persuaded by religious arguments and what God wants or what God's laws are. But they might be persuaded by secular logic if that secular logic is good. I think a combination of both are necessary.

However within Church settings, Catholic bishops, priests and deacons should not use only secular arguments but the full force of the faith and morals of the Church including divine law revealed in natural law and Scripture as well as the Tradition of the Church. If that doesn't convince Catholics, then we have a whole set of other problems, the loss of Catholic identity and the secularization of Catholics in the pews, what one might call their being "born again" not as Catholics but as heathens. That's a problem, boys and girls!

We might not be successful in this spiritual battle with secularists who wish to remove God from the public square to promote their twisted vision of utopia, but we are called as Catholics, both clergy and laity, to be faithful to God and His Holy Church and avoid utopian ideologies at all costs. The dictatorship of secularism is promoting marriage utopia as they once promoted communism as utopia and fascism as utopia. Obedience to God and Church anyone?