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Article: Traditional family becomes uncommon
- Article from:
- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- November 23, 2008
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Religious challenge to same-sex unions crosses lines of church
and state.
In a simple and ideal world, on the Prince Edward Island of Anne
of Green Gables, where differences are transient and justice and
happiness prevail, Bishop Richard Malone's view of things might have
some resonance: men and women marry, have children, raise them well,
and the human race continues. The church points the way.But that is
not the world we know; so, ignoring reality, the bishop's - and
Vatican's - neat matrix doesn't fit. Marriage has changed through
the centuries and the church's views of it, e.g., from early
recognition of consensual divorce to rigid denial.
Industrialization, secularism, a sex-saturated ...