Keeping Catholic schools Catholic | George Weigel | CWR
We should be grateful for the courageous leadership shown by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, whose San Francisco archdiocese is arguably ground zero of the culture war
There seems to be some dispute as to whether the original Trotskyite—that would be, um, Leon Trotsky—ever said, “You may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you.” One quotation-archaeologist, digging deeply, claims to have found the origins of Trotsky’s alleged bon mot in that unforgettable treatise, “Petty-Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party;” but, while this is Lent, excavating such rocky soil and farther would transform penance into masochism. So let’s just assume that Trotsky, as a good dialectical materialist, believed that there was no escape from history as it was being driven by “the dialectic.”
Or, to put it less dialectically-materialistically, you can’t duck some fights, try as you may.
Like, for example, the intensification of the culture war that will follow the Supreme Court’s anticipated discovery that the 39th Congress, passing the 14th amendment to the Constitution in 1866, included within the amendment’s guarantees a “right” to so-called “same-sex marriage.”
In ...1766, 1866, 1966, and, God Willing, if there is a 2066, the rules of logic remain the same. P cannot be, in essence, not P. Marriage cannot be existing in relationship as husband and wife, and not existing in relationship as husband and wife, simultaneously. One cannot remove the necessary requirement for a marriage contract, and one of the necessary requirements for The Sacrament of Matrimony, which is the ability and desire to exist in relationship as husband and wife, without promoting marriage fraud as well as the sin of adultery, clearly an impeachable offence.
Posted by: N.D. | Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 08:26 PM