I'm posting a commentary written by Lauren Moore who is also an Aussie missionary working in France. She sums up a very worrying situation and I'm grateful for her perspective. I'm really worried at the way government is operating here and rough shod decisions and lack of correct, informed, public, intelligent and respectful debate. Even if our rôle as Christians is primarily to proclaim the Kingdom of God and not to try and impose our way of living and believing (if not, we would be practising the equivalent of the sharia - think about it!), we do have a rôle to play in stating our beliefs and explaining why we understand things in that way - we have to be an alternative voice.
"The gay marriage debate is officially over in France last week, but
yesterday the protests continued. There have been 3 major protests,
gathering Catholics, Protestants and non-believers alike, to protest
against the law to allow gay marriage and same sex couples right to
adoption. There is also a change in the education system, to teach
children that there is NO difference between male & female, that
gender means nothing. (I promise I'm not exaggerating). Despite the
protests being massive (hundreds of thousand up to millions of
protesters gathered in Paris), nothing has been heard. Literally nothing
in any of the articles of these laws have been stopped. Gay marriage,
same-sex adoption, and the teaching that there is no gender have all
been passed."
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