Commentary: Fatherless Children, the Raelians, and the British Parliament

Catholic online ^ | 5/22/08 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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The news out of England is discouraging.

Single women and lesbian partners will soon stand in the legal same place as fathers with the deletion of four words from British legislation called “The Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill”.

The Bill had language in it which had been applied at fertility clinics to encourage two- parent, opposite sex families. Putting aside all of the vitally important moral issues of anyone ever even using a “fertility” clinic, and the horrid truth of the killing of the “spare” “embryos” which are “manufactured” in the IVF process, I write this commentary to address just how far down the road of the culture of death and use we have actually walked in the West.

The need for a father was always understood to be a part of the most stable environment within which to raise a healthy and happy child. With this modification in British law, that understanding has now been eliminated. The language will become generic and neuter, essentially making any configuration of persons a “supportive” family.

The “Brave New World” of “choice” is destroying the family and innocent children will be the ones who suffer the most.

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In a culture that has turned persons into objects, separated sexual acts from conjugal love and sought to “liberate” itself from both nature and the God who created it , the elimination of any recognition of the value of a father is one more expression of the “culture of death” and the utilitarian narcissism of the age.