Yeah apparently I am now a cultural vandal.
It has nothing to do with the poetry I write. The music that I write, play or perform. The plays I have been in, though I suspect the one I am writing would have had Mary Whitehouse in a tizzy.
No apparently my cultural vandalism stems from love. Lord Carey says so.
He says the Government has no mandate to define marriage, but what mandate does he, or the Church of England, or Coalition for Marriage have to not allow faith and non-faith groups that want to allow equal marriage.
Apparently the web of family will be affected if marriage is redefined. So if this gay Christian uncle were to get married, in a church setting, before God and the people present, would it unravel the web of my family? I trust that I am smart enough to only fall for somebody who would get on with my nephews, would enjoy as much as I do taking them to places, seeing them read or watch new things and answer their questions. If I didn't end up settling for someone like that you have permission to shoot me. Of course bringing someone into the family is an important step just as many years ago my brother brought my sister-in-law into the family (and with her, her parents and sister).
But apparently Lord Carey has spoken to some gay friends who say they are worried that redefining marriage would affect the structure of marriage. I look at the number of people LGBT or straight who don't see it as affecting family relationships in a negative way but as a positive.
Basing any public opinion based purely on the opinion of friends is not a very dodgy way to go about things, they are more likely to agree with your point of view or not be so outspoken about something, especially if your opinion on something is strongly held and publicly known. Yet apparently according to Lord Carey's statement his friends comments are the only evidence that he basing his opinions on. I thought he was supposed to be a man of books and learning to reach the pinnacle of the Church of England.
In the meantime TWIMC SGM cultural vandal 42 GSOH, NM NK NS former athlete, politically active likes NIOO, good food and books, WLTM similar for LTR possibly leading to M WTR
Read also Andrew Page (AKA Scottish Liberal) with his take on the same subject.
The Anglicans in Africa can marry more than one wife,polygyny,and quote scripture to support it.
ReplyDeleteLord Carey is silent about this.
Hmmm... I may also have to post on this...
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with the church taking a view with regards their own objection to gay marriage - it is, after all, the scriptural position (or, in deferance to your good self, Stephen, *a* scriptural position). Nor do I object to them voice such opposition, as long as it is done in temperate language.
What I do have objections to is the way that that religious objections are conflated with pseudo-socialogical arguments. Not that such techniques are new - the anti-abologinists has a range of similar arguments for the preservation of the slace trade as did the anti-suffrage establishment.
Andrew