When Principle Trumps Common Sense and Reason...

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A Christian couple with children in Australia have decided to divorce should Australia vote to allow marriage equality, aka same sex marriage. Their decision for divorcing after 10 years of marital bliss would be their way of protesting what amounts to in their minds a redefining of marriage. Believing that marriage equality will destroy the "sacred bond" that exists between mother, father, and child in the traditional marriage they then believe marriage becomes meaningless and therefore just an empty contract they would no longer wish to be in.

While the Jensen's logic thread when analyzed in the narrowest confines of Christianity and the Church is non contradictory (to a point) and therefor seemingly rational, it certainly seems less than logical and rational to divorce, thereby denying their children the sanctity of the marriage contract that was originally blessed by the Church and one the state would have no interest in changing.

What this amounts to is a fundamentalist Christian couple that has merely found a new way to protest the fact they disapprove of changing attitudes. In this instance it is indeed principle trumping common sense and there is no value or substance to e gained other that to make them feel good in having stood for their religious principles. And life will continue to go on for the rest of the world.

The Sydney Morning Herald - "My wife and I, as a matter of conscience, refuse to recognise the government's regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnisation of same sex couples,"

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Jensen told Fairfax Media that he and his wife entered into their marriage "as a fundamental order of creation, part of God's intimate story for human history, man and woman, for the sake of children, faithful and for life".

"And so, if later on in the year the state does go ahead and changes the definition of marriage and changes the terms of that contract then we can no longer partake in that new definition unfortunately,"

Legalising same-sex marriage would undermine "our most sacred institution, and have serious consequences for children who would grow up without a mother or father,"

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"Once you say that marriage is detached from children, [that it's] just about love, then when three people come to the state and say 'well we're all in love', then the state has no grounds, except unjust discrimination, to say why they can't get married,"

"When it becomes detached to the child's right to a mother and a father and the sacred institution that it is, then suddenly it becomes meaningless and those boundaries can't be put back in place,"

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Via: Memeorandum