Marriage

Marriage is an intimate personal union to which a man and woman consent, consummated and continually nourished by sexual intercourse, and perfected in a life-long partnership of mutual love and commitment. It is also a social institution regulated by the Word of God and by the laws and customs which a society develops to safeguard its own continuity and welfare. The Creator made man and woman, displaying His full image only as man and woman. Each is made for the other, their essential natures being complimentary and brought into oneness in marriage.
Husband and wife both share and perpetuate their happiness in having and rearing a family, thus marriage is more than an end in itself; it is the means to ends outside the married couple. Husband and wife become one in relation to the community, so that through marriage a new social unit emerges.
The exclusive sexual relation between husband and wife points to the exclusive commitment of total responsibility for each other. The sexual communion speaks of a pervading possessiveness, each partner offering a precious gift to the other which has been exclusively preserved for that one alone.
The total unity of man and woman in marriage, understood in the expression ‘one flesh’, demands monogamy along with male and female exclusiveness.
When it comes to moral or spiritual matters, the intellectual elites and the brain-dead share equal space in the parliamentary and media wards. It’s quite natural for them to change what they simply don’t understand. The weak fear what they don’t understand and what they can’t comprehend is the positive strengths like integrity, honour, faith and commitment which many marriages still cling to.
This coming fall, our federal government will once again bring the definition of marriage to the table for discussion and voting. The extreme activists and the national media will pour their biased views on to the public again so we can’t expect to have a fair or equal public hearing on the subject. The only effective tool we have is to reach the anti-marriage liberal/NDP MP’s across Canada, perhaps, through our friends and relatives.