I refer to the letter by Josie Muscat entitled ‘Fake marriage law’, (The Sunday Times of Malta, March 5).
Dr Muscat rightly deplores the drafting of a Marriage Equality Bill, stating that our politicians will be putting LGBTIQ ‘parents’ at par with heterosexual married parents or couples. He says that same-sex marriage would further isolate marriage from its procreative purpose insofar as it establishes that there is no intrinsic link between procreation and marriage.
Having worked for well over 40 years with families in Malta and overseas, I strongly believe that an intact married family, headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict family, is best for children. Children on care orders yearn to go back to their abusive biological parents; children of separated or divorced parents hunger for their biological parents to be reunited.
Truth be told, children need mothers and fathers. Lesbians and gays, using in-vitro fertilisation and surrogate mothers, deliberately create a class of children who will live apart from their biological mother and father. There comes a time when these children will want to know the identity of their biological parents.
Same-sex marriage has made marriage a cornerstone issue in the LGBTIQ movement. LGBTIQ believes that once marriage is re-defined, same-sex marriage would bolster the institution of marriage. In support of this assertion, the then UK Home Secretary Theresa May went a step further when she told The Daily Telegraph in 2012 that homosexuals will be missionaries to the wider society and will make marriage ‘stronger’. I am stunned at such an attitude! As marriage is redefined by the political class to accommodate the LGBTIQ movement, the relevance of marriage to parenthood will decline further.
The LGBTIQ movement is a juggernaut, reaping success after success. For tactical reasons, it stops short of adopting more terms to cover the different ways people define their gender and sexuality; thus, for instance, forming the acronym LGBTIQQAP.
The list is not exhaustive. Once same-sex marriage is legalised, bisexuals, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, asexual and pansexual would all qualify for the redefined institution of marriage.
Sadomasochists, leather fetishists, cross-dressers and others will rightly knock at the Civil Liberties Minister’s door.
As the saying goes, allow the camel’s nose beneath your tent, and his whole body will soon follow. Once the camel is safely in, there will be room for all to embrace marriage and form families of sorts.