In her article in the Guardian about gay marriage Zoe Williams attempts to define the Conservative attitude to marriage: Marriage must be man plus woman plus consummation. It must be exclusive. By its own terms, it must be lifelong.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/22/why-do-tories-think-they-can-rule-on-marriage?CMP=twt_gu
She overlooks that in sacramental marriage two people become, in the eyes of the Church, one person. This is legally recognised in law, which is why tax and inheritance laws are different for married couples as distinct from unmarried individuals. You might argue that this is outmoded and needs to be swept away in the pursuit of modernity and equality - and perhaps replaced by a universal civil partnership.
But it is silly to say that gay people need to be anachronistically slotted into a pre-medieval model of social organisation that almost none of them (and virtually none of the wider campaigners) actually believe in.
It's a position entirely without integrity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/22/why-do-tories-think-they-can-rule-on-marriage?CMP=twt_gu
She overlooks that in sacramental marriage two people become, in the eyes of the Church, one person. This is legally recognised in law, which is why tax and inheritance laws are different for married couples as distinct from unmarried individuals. You might argue that this is outmoded and needs to be swept away in the pursuit of modernity and equality - and perhaps replaced by a universal civil partnership.
But it is silly to say that gay people need to be anachronistically slotted into a pre-medieval model of social organisation that almost none of them (and virtually none of the wider campaigners) actually believe in.
It's a position entirely without integrity.
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