Prop 8 "Woe to you that call good, evil and evil, good."

“Woe to you that call good, evil and evil, good….”

The overturning of Prop 8 in California is an abomination. Because someone says something is so, based on an interpretation of law, does not make it so. Walker, the Federal judge in the case, used nothing but subjectivity and his own illicit lifestyle to support and define what “marriage” should be, that it makes no difference whether a man is “married” to a man, or a woman to a woman; or for that matter a human being to a donkey or whatever. What about a “marriage” for three people? Polygamy? Many wives?

I have been saying for years, to anyone who would listen—and particularly to my children, WHO really don’t listen—that the state should be completely out of the “marriage business”. Why do we have to take blood tests anymore? Register with the state at all? It’s none of the state’s business. Recently I was challenged on this in that this individual questioned, “….well, what happens if there’s a divorce? Who’s going to be the arbiter of such a thing? What about the children?” (Now the children are what kept Marilyn and me together all of these years. Neither one of us wanted custody. An old joke.) The same arbiter that would or could be delegated to any contract. My contract with Marilyn was that she would get everything. Since I didn’t get a dowry when we were married thirty-three years ago, people might say that I would receive the short end of the “marriage” stick. But then they haven’t had to live with me.

Marriage, especially in the traditional Judeo-Christian philosophy, has always been between one woman and one man. It is also part of the Natural Law. For one judge to determine the definition of marriage based on his personal beliefs, feelings, and total disregard for everything from tradition to culture, is arrogant at best and evil at worse. Do not call evil, good, nor good, evil.

Here’s what Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM, who is the preacher to the papal household, says about the Union of Marriage:

The analogy between human marriage and the union of Christ and the Church lies in the fact that both are based on love: “Christ loved the Church.” But what exactly did He love, we ask ourselves, since at the moment in which He gave up his life, the Church did not yet exist? The exegetes explain that He loved “the Church preexistent in God in virtue of His pre-temporal election and determination.” Christ loved the Church with the same love with which God loved humanity in creating it. Let us listen to how Catherine of Siena describes the love of something that does not yet exist:
“Eternal Father, how did you come to create this creature of yours?....(Your own) fire, then, compelled you. O ineffable love, though in your light you saw all the iniquities your creature was to commit against your infinite goodness, you pretended not to see, and set your eyes on the beauty of your creature with whom you fell in love like a fool or one drunk with love, and in love you gave it being in your image and likeness.”
Gabriel Marcel says that according to Christian metaphysics, “to be is to be loved.” The creature exists because it has been loved. This is especially true of the Church. She exists inasmuch as she is loved.