Bulletins

March 8, 2015

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When some present-day advocates of same-sex marriage are publicly denounced as bigots, everyone who should care already will awake to yet another whole new world. That world will be the one in which polygamists succeed in securing legal rights for polyamory over the objections of those backward traditionalists who think that only two men or two women can enter into a legitimate marriage.

Is that fiction? Perhaps. For one thing, that may happen by the end of 2015. The first publicly married gay “throuple” said “I do. I do. I do.” in Thailand a week ago. Secondly, there must be very few people with same-sex attractions who would object to legal rights for group marriages. Remember that the so-called LGBT community is really the beginning of an alphabet soup that represents over sixty different genders. Imagine that slow-to-adapt Facebook had offered only fifty-eight gender options for user profiles until just a few days ago. Now users can fill in their own gender however they wish.

Now, you may ask, who will be the new bigots in that new world? Those of you who view marriage as being between a man and a women and yet who have grown to tolerate same-sex marriage but have decided to draw the line at trios. When our more flexible neighbors, those who only bristled at the prospect of same-sex marriage being mentioned favorably in public school curricula, start to complain when farm animals become features of family trees in government classrooms, their more progressive counterparts will look at even them with disdain and incredulity. Being in favor of same-sex marriage will not have earned them freedom from the “bigot” label.

We should care now because we already are decades too late to defend the crux of marriage, potentially procreative intimacy, and so contraception gained cultural approval and marriage can terminate in no-fault divorce. We are way too late to prevent “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” from dying a slow death. But we are not quite too late to prevent America from suffering its demise because of too few couples getting married, loving each other as perfectly as possible, having children and helping them grow up as good Christians.

Since we all will eventually be dismissed as haters, we might as well stand together and make a more convincing statement about the beauty of marriage and the dignity of every human being even if not married.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, bless us now and at the hour of our death!

Fr. Christopher J. Pollard.