1 December 2005

CFT Press Statement

 

CFT RESPONSE TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING ON GAY MARRIAGE

Parliament needs to carefully consider the meaning of marriage. Marriage throughout the history of all civilisations has always meant  to be between a man and  a  woman.  There is no tracable  history for approved same-sex marriage in any civilisation since the dawn of time. All major religions  and even pagan societies have  underwritten this very obvious  principle  that marriage is meant to signify a particular relationship between a man and a woman only.

The Marriage Act does not need to be changed. Today’s Constitutional Court ruling gives Parliament 12 months to look into the issue that “current legislation and common-law unfairly discriminates against same sex couples”. If it is really necessary, Parliament may need to have an additional act for “Civil Unions”. But, marriage is what it says it is and it would be dangerous to fiddle with its fundamental meaning. Parliamentarians will need to listen to common sense and the obvious wish of South Africans, which is to keep the integrity of marriage as being between a man and a woman.

 

The fact that the Constitutional Court has approved same-sex unions does not change God's disapproval of homosexual conduct. God in His Word, the Bible, makes no provision for same-sex unions. Christian church denominations will have to make this very clear to parliamentarians and legislators. All Christian church denominations need now to unite and protect the integrity and meaning of "marriage".  

For further information please contact Dr Peet Botha at: 082 9655851, or visit his website at: www.homosexuality.co.za

(More useful information on this important topic can be found at The Marriage Alliance website: www.marriagealliancesa.com; and Doctors for Life, www.dfl.org.za)