Natural law denied

I WAKE up aghast that the Civil Partnership Bill is going through the Dáil without an outcry.

Is it that I have come to be on my own in regarding same-sex marriage as a denial of the natural law, as a rejection of mores civilisations have known, of a direct disavowal of the institution of marriage as a bond of love for the procreation of children? With this legislation the Ireland of religion that we know is effectively sundered.

Canon James Kelly