He lamented, "why can't a woman be more like a man?" And now we've arrived. Not only is a woman more like a man, but a man is more like a woman -- in fact, they're indistinguishable. Why would a child need a father when he's got such a woman, or two women, or two men, for that matter? All that nonsense about mothers and fathers has been swept away with a week's campaign in England and four votes, nailing in decades of sexual confusion.
Single women and lesbian couples won landmark parental rights last night as MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will replace the rule with a “need for supportive parenting” after opponents were defeated in two votes by unexpectedly wide margins. The decisions mean that the legislation will grant the most significant extension to homosexual family rights since gay adoption was sanctioned. It will stop fertility clinics turning away lesbians and single women because their children will not have a father or male role model. While the current law does not block such therapy, it is sometimes used to justify refusals.
The Church and a few conservative legislators argued for "fatherhood," but were lost in a sea of flag-wavers for women's rights, queer rights, brave new world rights, and "family is clap-trap" rights. Children and their needs as a competing interest barely stifled a yawn.
MPs who backed the fatherhood amendments said the traditional family would be undermined. Iain Duncan Smith, who proposed enshrining the importance of a father and mother, said that the new law would amount to telling couples that “fathers are not important, or are less important than mothers”.
The former Tory leader said there was overwhelming evidence that children without fathers were more likely to have problems at school and with drink and drugs. His criticisms were backed by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’ Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, in an interview with The Times. “I think it strange that the Government should want to take away not just the need for a father but the right for a father,” he said.
Irrelevant. Almighty choice is the banner of our age -- communal needs be damned. As Joanna Bogle sees it:
Today our country walked into the valley of the shadow of death... If some one, in whatever civilisation replaces ours, writes about these days, those who passed this legislation will be treated with savagery. The evil that will result from what Parliament has now permitted is clear enough even at this stage - but it will generate more evil, and terrible things will be done.
No civilisation has ever survived, let alone prospered, when it failed to understand that human beings are at the heart of it all, that human existence has a value. Nor can any civilisation work that is based on a lie.
Today the sun shone, and the London evening paper had headlines about whether the latest Royal wedding should have been featured in "Hello!" magazine, and the BBC ran a football match as its main story. And the nation which once helped to take the Christian Gospel to distant lands, and stood against neighbouring tyranny in the face of terrible odds, and produced some of the world's most glorious literature, closed its face to its own future...
It will only get worse, so batten down the hatches and pray. The "shadow of death" hovers over us indeed. (Evidently, the Catholic leadership could use your prayers also.)
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