“It is necessary to oppose legal recognition of homosexual unions... The principles of respect and non-discrimination cannot be involved to support legal recognition of homosexual unions...Homosexual unions would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, with the consequences of making it a model in present day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself.”—Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 2003

“Same sex marriage is a destructive attack on God’s plan.“—Pope Francis in 2010

“Marriage is between a man and a woman.”—Pope Francis 2014

Pope Francis is now on record as favoring civil unions for same-sex couples. The first pope to do so. Is Francis’s support for civil unions a way to ease the church into blessing same-sex relationships or solemnizing same sex marriages? Or is he merely making a judgment about civil law in a rash, truncated and ultimately convoluted and confusing manner?

Nevertheless, in this regard Francis has upheld neither the letter or the spirit of the CDF document. Worse, he has given the appearance of approving deviant behavior and has failed to defend those basic values that belong to the common inheritance of humanity. Francis’s actions are not inclusive, impartial or tolerant(1) in any sense of the true definition, rather it is a process now at the service of forces dedicated to undermine the very conditions that made our civilization’s indisputable by sound logic crowning achievements.

The freedom celebrated in western civilization can only exist within a certain framework that sets sound limits on conduct, limits legitimately derived from a transcendent authority. When we casually adopt the language and institutions that clash with that authority, we thus open ourselves up unwittingly to the foundational precepts underlying them. If we fall back and look just to what we can hold onto rather than what we can reclaim, we will continue to lose that which we seek to preserve. John O’Sullivan’s Law, pertaining to organizational behavior, which the Church is, reminds us that any organization or enterprise that does not expressly support and defend its “mission" will dissolve over time.

“Small changes eventually lead to a significant shift... especially when there are ideological motives behind them and ideologues advocating for the change...Careful and prudent inspection is called for when changes are being instituted...Such as the discerning and understanding the true reasons, intents and motives for the desire to change... to watch for potential loopholes in change related language, instructions, regulation, and law… And never submit to small changes simply because this or that small change is allegedly innocuous, for seemingly innocuous small changes often have dynamic effects and do not always remain within the parameters claim by their proponents.”— Gerald T. Mundy

1. “Tolerance denotes putting up with an unsympathetic phenomenon to a point, but not embracing and celebrating pathologies.”—Marek Jan Chodakiewicz