‘The Marriage Files’, a new book launched by Christian Concern's publishing house, Wilberforce Publications, argues that the introduction of same-sex marriage is the culmination of a concerted political, economic and legal process in which marriage has been progressively diluted and dismantled.
“With marriage the ghost at the multi-billion extravaganzas to counteract poverty, educational failure, crime and childhood disadvantage, there are legitimate interests in wishing children to grow up in the most favourable or optimum conditions - parents bound to each other and their offspring by the ties of morality and law as well as nature,” says Patricia Morgan, an independent author, broadcaster and researcher whose speciality is family policy and developments.
The author argues that while same-sex 'marriage' completely broke with age-old understandings of marriage, “marriage itself, parenthood and child-rearing were already being eased apart and fathers progressively lost from homes, as the self-sufficient or stand-alone mother largely became the focus of policies affecting families”. She emphasises that “a fundamental task of marriage has always been to make a father, but if it is deemed that children do not ‘need’ one, then marriage is superfluous to how children are born and raised”.
Marriage diluted and despised
‘The Marriage Files’ documents how marriage has been “castigated by academics, mocked by media and targeted by demolitionists” leading to marriage being “legally diluted and penalised by fiscal and welfare policy”.
“With the political classes generally averse or hostile, it has deserved little or no support or protection. For Labour and Liberal Democrat it has been something to demolish. Tories have side-lined it out of embarrassment, generally discriminated against it and raided it to resource other priorities,” she says.
She argues that same-sex marriage was justified by David Cameron on spurious grounds that marriage would be strengthened for everybody, and that ‘gay marriage’ would help resolve many of the negative social and health problems suffered by people who live a homosexual lifestyle.
Lies
Patricia is highly critical of the political urgency to introduce same-sex 'marriage': “Proposals for same-sex marriage appeared in no party’s manifesto. It was not a response to the general will or popular demand, or a matter of general welfare or benefit. There was no struggle, no mass protests. The passing of civil partnership legislation had been replete with emphatic announcements that this was not a gateway to SSM and had been passed on the understanding that marriage would be unaffected. All lies.”
"The age-old understanding of marriage as the basis of a father-and-mother family has been replaced with the concept of a relationship centred on the satisfaction of a couple, or a private agreement to which children are irrelevant, peripheral or an add-on,” says Morgan.
"Homophobic"
In an interview with Christian Concern, Patricia Morgan stresses that those who raise legitimate concerns about the negative effects of homosexual lifestyles should not be labelled as “homophobic”. Watch the interview here >
The book is available on Amazon and can be purchased here >
Watch highlights from the book launch here >