3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien The church’s teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
3 December 2020 Keith O'Brien If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?
