Monday, May 10, 2004
Archishop Chaput of Denver recently wrote:
America's Founding Fathers did not say, and never intended, that religious faith should be excluded from civic debate. They intended one thing only: to prevent the establishment of an official state church. A purely secular interpretation of the "separation of church and state" would actually result in the "separation of state and morality." And that would be a catastrophe for real pluralism and the democratic process.
We can see the fruits of that happening now. What is "moral" becomes a function of what people perceive as right and fair. Therefore, we have the situation where marriage is no longer seen as a way that a man and woman become the basic unit of society, passing down their heritage to the next generation, but a sort of union where two people come together to share goods and sex, a private contract between two people that has no real impact on the greater society. Therefore it's only fair, in that concept that gay couples be allowed to marry.
We certainly see it in the fact that as far as reproduction rights are concerned, children who cannot legally be treated for tonsillitis without their parents consent, can have an invasive operation for abortion. Or by the fact that unwanted unborn babies are just tissue, but if you kill a wanted unborn child, it can be considered murder.
Relativism gives you only shifting sands to live by. But because secularism demands that we remove the sacred from the public center, that is all they will leave us with. More reason than ever to make the certainty of a loving God to be the true reality of your life.
The Archbishop's original message can be read here.
America's Founding Fathers did not say, and never intended, that religious faith should be excluded from civic debate. They intended one thing only: to prevent the establishment of an official state church. A purely secular interpretation of the "separation of church and state" would actually result in the "separation of state and morality." And that would be a catastrophe for real pluralism and the democratic process.
We can see the fruits of that happening now. What is "moral" becomes a function of what people perceive as right and fair. Therefore, we have the situation where marriage is no longer seen as a way that a man and woman become the basic unit of society, passing down their heritage to the next generation, but a sort of union where two people come together to share goods and sex, a private contract between two people that has no real impact on the greater society. Therefore it's only fair, in that concept that gay couples be allowed to marry.
We certainly see it in the fact that as far as reproduction rights are concerned, children who cannot legally be treated for tonsillitis without their parents consent, can have an invasive operation for abortion. Or by the fact that unwanted unborn babies are just tissue, but if you kill a wanted unborn child, it can be considered murder.
Relativism gives you only shifting sands to live by. But because secularism demands that we remove the sacred from the public center, that is all they will leave us with. More reason than ever to make the certainty of a loving God to be the true reality of your life.
The Archbishop's original message can be read here.
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