By Abraham Mathai
Mumbai, Dec 30, 2023: The recent announcement by the Vatican, that same sex couples and others living in irregular relationships could seek and receive a blessing is extremely despicable and shocking.
This totally negates and contravenes the very tenets of the Bible stated in the ten commandments, the holy laws which the Almighty God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai, to ensure righteous living.
This will certainly culminate in the opening of the floodgates to the next level of ethical deterioration and moral perversion as the same sex couples will demand the rights to even child adoption.
Allowing same sex couples to adopt children will affect their orientation as children need both parents to grow up in order to become functional adults. It will not be possible for an already dysfunctional household of same sex parents to raise up children with normal psychological stability.
It is a well-known fact that the same sex marriage, is not compatible with the order of nature, though it has sadly found acceptance in the postmodern neo liberal world.
Same sex marriage is a perversion of the institution of marriage and the eventual destruction of family and in the long run results in the disordering and dysfunction of society at large.
Hence, it’s imperative and essential for the Vatican to review this matter in line with biblical principles and take a definite stand on the right side of this moral and ethical issue.
Otherwise, humanity will be in great jeopardy of facing the verdict that befell Sodom and Gomorrah when the Almighty God unleashed His judgement wrath as God had created Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve.
(Abraham Mathai is a Protestant Christian and former vice chairman of Minorities Commission of Maharashtra state.)