… same-sex marriage might prove a small advance in chastity in a culture that has lost much sense of chastity. Same-sex marriage might prove a small advance in love in a civilization that no longer seems to know what love is for. Same-sex marriage might prove a small advance in the coherence of family life in a society in which the family is dissolving.
I once mentioned to Jody that some people thought that Mary should be declared co-redemptrix. He replied, without missing a beat, "Yes, they're called heretics." His remark struck this cradle Catholic as a bit extreme, but also as rather amusing. Anyway, I think he's on to something here. I think it was Aquinas who noted that, while the natural law is itself necessarily unchanging, man's understanding necessarily changes as more about nature comes to be known. The sex scandals alone should make the hierarchy cautious when it comes to pronouncements regarding sexual activity between consenting adults. The business of abortion is another matter. I oppose that for the same reason I have come to agree with Vice President Thomas Marshall's objection to capital punishment: "I do not believe it rests in human hands to say when a life shall cease."
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