...some sympathy for the poor Prime Minister, who was obviously unwell yesterday , my main concern is for our country, which must endure the nonsense which formed part of her speech. What on earth did she mean by suggesting that reinventing the legal base of marriage can in any way be regarded as compassionate? It was a cruel and mean-spirited thing to do, and has helped to undermine further the central institution on which a just society is based.
The Tories did a great deal of harm by forcing same-sex "marriage" on Britain. The only possible thing for a just and fair government to do now is to ensure that those who defend marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman are given a fair hearing and not penalised. That means teachers, magistrates, school governors, youth workers, church leaders and others whose work includes teaching and guiding the young.
Mrs May is a Christian woman who personally honours marriage: it was touching to see her husband hurry to hug her as she finished her unfortunate speech. But she is Prime Minister: what matters is not her personal views on marriage, but the policies she is promoting for the rest of bus. If she cannot refrain from continuing to promote the cruel undermining of marriage, then it is probably time for her to make way for some one who will at least remain silent on the subject, and allow true freedom for policy-discussion to flourish.
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Without doubt marriage has been redefined. Marriage had rules. Two people. Male and female. There was to be no blood relationship and both parties had to say "I do". It is now only a matter of time before these are challenged and I suspect the next to come into question is the numbers involved.
We as Catholics have been accepting of second marriages. It's rare to hear of someone refusing an invitation to such a wedding out of principle, even rarer for second spouses to be excluded from "couples" events. When there is a second marriage, the Church tries very hard to find reasons for declaring the first wedding invalid. We've also tacitly accepted contraception. At a prayer / bible study meeting at a former parish, which attracted the core membership - not just practising Catholics but those prepared to turn out for extras - the subject of contraception came up and every single couple admitted to using contraceptives.
This insensitivity means that when nonsense like gay marriage is proposed, there's no adequate response.
Same-sex marriage can never be acceptable in church whatever happens outside and Joanna is right to point this out. Unfortunately the media seems to see Mrs May as a Christian spokeswoman when, whatever her beliefs might be, she is speaking for a Government whose philosophy (if it really has one at all)seems to be to allow anything as long as it might garner votes from the trendy. The Church of England is so mired in the Crown and politics that it is prepared to temporise or fudge on almost any issue. As a 92 retired vicar told me the other day, the Church of England is not at all the same body as the one he joined so many years ago. He feels betrayed and that he has wasted his life - he wished he had known 70 years ago where it would end up now.
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