Catholic Insight ran a sermon about homosexual marriage. It's for Canada's situation, but it could easily be adapted to the U.S. Link. Excerpt:
Let me review some of the milestones during that period that have set the stage for the present crisis:
1) The distribution of contraceptives was made legal in 1967. That opened the door to artificially separating the act of intercourse from procreation–the unitive from the procreative. This did not go unnoticed by “gay” activists. If heterosexuals can separate sexual intercourse from procreation and still call their union marriage, they reasoned, why can't we?
2) Grounds for divorce were widened in 1968, and again in the early 1980s–a threat to the stability of the family.
3) Abortion, the killing of preborn babies, was legalized in 1969. This also implied the heterosexual rejection of one of the essential purposes of marriage–the generation of new life.
4) Homosexual acts in private between adults 18 years and older were legalized in 1969. Immediately thereafter homosexuals opened their public bathhouses. Not long after this, “gay” parades were forced on cities across Canada with elected officials participating in the idolatrous frenzy.
5) Strict regulation of the moral content of movies disintegrated during these years.
6) Television has deteriorated so much since the late sixties that even in prime time hours it is no longer safe to watch.
7) Sex abuse has increased and, shame to say, some of it at the hands of priests.
8) Teenage pregnancies and common law marriages have skyrocketed.
9) One of the consequences of legalizing homosexual acts in private has been the spread of AIDS.
10) Prostitution is on the rise; there is a strong pressure to legalize it. Some European countries already have.
11) Pornography–especially “kiddie porn”–is a multi-billion dollar industry, readily available on the internet to young and old at any hour of the day.
12) Pressure is growing to legalize pedophilia; there is also pressure to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide.
13) There are more and more broken families.
It is not hard to see the “domino effect” in action in this incredible sequence of events since 1967–many of them originating in our federal parliament and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Is it really surprising, then, that the next item on the agenda was same-sex “marriage?” Where will it end?
