18 July 2016
The Anglican Church of Canada recently voted to permit gay marriage to be celebrated in Anglican Churches. The Hamilton Spectator endorsed the endorsement in an editorial headlined, "Anglicans Battered, but on the side of right."
Contrary to the editorial, the Anglican Church, certainly
that part of it belonging to the Diocese of Niagara with its decision to
endorse so-called “same-sex” marriage, has ceased to be a Christian Church.
It is one thing to forgive sin; it is quite another to
endorse it. To endorse sin, the Anglican Church must abandon natural law,
since it is through natural law that moral judgments are made.
The talk about the Anglican Church “being on the side of
right,” is absurd. The moral analysis that leads to such a conclusion is
a disguised form of “might makes right.” There is no moral or
metaphysical justification for such a thing as “same-sex” marriage, and to say
that there is, is to say there is nothing right or wrong. Including this
condemnation of it.
The moral analysis of truly Christian churches is found in
natural law, and natural law finds the purpose of marriage to be
procreation. (Hold your objections until you have researched this aspect
of natural law.)
Obviously, a homosexual union cannot in any circumstances
result in procreation, and hence must be rejected a priori as
metaphysically legitimate. A marriage is between a man and a woman
because that is what a marriage simply is.
In endorsing same-sex marriage, the Anglican Church has
abandoned the basis to morally condemn anyone or anything, for any reason.
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