This is not really a political blog, but I have just had two
classes with my boys; first on the role of the Cardinal Virtues in how we make
decisions, and second a general discussion group with the GCSE year.
Cardinal Virtues threw up the need to stand up for what is right
and just, the older ones started talking about French politics, which is very
current. They brought up the notion of gay marriage.
I have a strong belief that all of this comes as a direct
result of allowing the wholesale slaughter of children in the womb. After all,
what can it possibly mean to say that you or I have 'right', if we could have
been killed because our mother wanted to work, or already had three children,
or that I have a hair lip (or nowadays that I am a boy or a girl, and mummy
wants a baby that she can dress in blue or pink). Rights now are not something
that are intrinsic but are things which are granted by the state. After all the
state has decided that a child in the womb can be killed up to the moment that
the ambulance is bringing the mother to the hospital after nine months of
pregnancy, if the genetic material is in a certain order. She can’t if the chromosomes are differently arranged. So the state
has decided that unborn children with Down’s Syndrome do not have the same
rights. As this right is the right to exist, then we must make the logical
conclusion that such a life is not worth as much as a life with a different
genetic arrangement.
Disgusting and horrible I know, but at least consistent in
its evil.
So what if…
…we could find a genetic marker for homosexuality, a ‘gay
gene’?
Would the fact that the child in the womb was predisposed to
same sex attraction be a good enough reason to abort them? Would any or the
following statements be acceptable:
- A homosexual child would just cause too many problems and want to continue my career.
- The rest of my family are heterosexual and it would cause them distress to have a brother or sister who is different.
- My family and/or friends would find it difficult to accept a homosexual child.
- I can’t face all the explanations and hassle of having a homosexual child.
- I do not want a homosexual child.
- My religious/societal beliefs tell me that this child is ‘defective’.
- It’s my choice, it’s my body and I do not want a homosexual child.
You see, the danger when states and governments make up ‘rights’
on the hoof is that they do not want to deal with the consequences when two ‘made
up’ rights come into conflict.
Who wins when the gay
rights lobby comes up against the woman’s right to choose?
Of course the loser in all this is the poor unfortunate in
the womb who should have a whole life ahead of them – to choose to live as they
wish (and pay the eternal consequences for those decisions) – instead of being
arbitrarily exterminated by their mothers, with the connivance and the
encouragement of the state.
When the right to life is removed, other ‘rights’ are ultimately
meaningless.
