Foundations forgotten (From The Oxford Times)
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Foundations forgotten
8:30am Thursday 3rd May 2012 in Letters
Sir – Marriage has been a good institution that has been around for centuries. Who are we to decide to change it? As it stands, civil partnerships are already in place for same sex relationships. Marriage defined ‘as the formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife’ (http://oxforddictionaries.com/ definition/marriage) has been part of our heritage for centuries.
This country was founded on Christian principles and we used to be a Christian missionary-sending-nation that espoused these values. Have we forgotten the foundations that this country has been built upon?
Samantha Mandrup, Headington
Comments(4)
onemorething
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9:58am Fri 4 May 12
Megs
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4:15pm Sun 6 May 12
tions upon which this country has been built upon" and the (British) christian missionaries inflicted elsewhere deserve to be forgotten, if not apologised for, and certainly should have no preferred status in a modern, secular, society.
Sophia
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7:17am Tue 8 May 12
The big chnage is marriage as it existed for centuries was not gay marriage but heterosecual divorce.
What we have now is not christian marriage as existed for centuries but serial polygamy on a huge scale - a majority of UK marriages end in divorce and often re-marriage. This surely makes a mockery of marriage as a christian sacrament, reduces it to a temporary convenience.
Strange how this doesnt worry christian nutters while a tiny number of gay marriages drives them wild
docs says...
9:40pm Thu 3 May 12