Yesterday, "marriage" was redefined as a union of any two persons, regardless of sex, in Argentina. One week before, the Irish Senate (Seanad Éireann) had taken a step in the same direction, with the approval of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009, just days after it had been approved by the Dáil (the Lower House). Hilary White reports for LifeSite:
Under the proposed law, as in the UK, registered civil partnerships are effectively equivalent to marriage. They have to be litigated in divorce courts if the relationship breaks down and the partners are treated as married by banks, government departments and officials and by the tax and benefits systems.Jamie Bogle, a barrister of the Middle Temple in London and chairman of the Catholic Union of Great Britain, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in an interview last week that the passage of the bill would have wide-ranging deleterious effects on Irish society, as similar legislation has done in England, Wales and Scotland.As a principle, he said, once laws begin to equate the “fruitless” (that is childless) relationships of homosexuals with natural marriage, “You are deriving the law from a fundamentally false premise ... which denies that there is any natural complementarity between the sexes.”The logic of civil partnership laws, he said, is a recipe for “moral anarchy and chaos.”“Once you have created a law that considers marriage as merely a partnership for community living and recreational sex, why not have polygamy? Why not marry a dog for that matter? Whatever turns you on, go for it.”Although the Irish bill does not include a provision allowing homosexual partners to adopt each other’s children, homosexualist activists have set their sights on adoption as the next goal.
