Partners bill fraught with anomalies

THE Civil Partnership Bill is fraught with anomalies.

Most religions and societies, Christian and otherwise, have a special place for marriage in all its manifestations.

In the Catholic faith, the role of marriage and the family is acknowledged as the “domestic church”. This nucleus or family unit is formed by a male and female and children (a set of parents and children: Oxford Dictionary of Current English.)

I am very concerned over the proposed “registration of civil partnership” whereby the definition of “marital status” is to be replaced by “civil status”.

The traditional family based on a marriage between a male and female is not only a Christian view, but one that fits the definition of the natural law, which means the unchanging moral principles common to all people by virtue of their nature as human beings.

The question remains: what has become of the common good?

Noel O’Shaughnessy

Boyne Crescent

Mayfield

Cork