Reflection on August 20, 1980

https://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/jp2tb35.htm

While I was reading about the legislation that the Jews developed to protect polygamy, yet punish adultery, I found myself thinking that what they were really trying to do is “redefine” marriage to fit their desires. We are dealing with the same issue today with homosexual unions and the movement to try and redefine what marriage is. “Such a right, while it combated sin, at the same time contained within itself, or rather protected the social dimension of sin, which it actually legalized.” This quote lays out what is going on with gay marriage. The sin that is being combated then was adultery, but the laws brought about polygamy and thus legalized sin in the fact that marriage was redefined. The right to gay marriage might try to protect (I was having a hard time coming up with a sin that this is meant to prevent) the right for couples to have certain rights, but its result is the legalization of an act that is sinful. In both cases, Christ can look at the law that is being proposed and tell us, in the beginning it was not so.