Robert George, chairman emeritus of the
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), claims that allowing gay
couples to marry hurts the poor.
George recently spoke at the Humanum
Colloquium hosted at the Vatican. In comments to Aleteia.org,
George explained that marriage equality leads to greater divorce,
which in turn hurts children and the poor.
“In my remarks this afternoon, I
pointed out that the demand for the redefinition of marriage to
accommodate same-sex partner is not the cause of the erosion of the
marriage culture,” George said. “Rather, it's an effect, a
symptom of the erosion of the marriage culture.”
“And so I said, that’s why we have
to fight. We have to resolve that we will stand for marriage and
fight for however long it takes – it might be 20 years, it might be
50 years, it might be 100 years – to rebuild the marriage culture
and to restore in law, where it has been displaced, a sound
understanding of marriage.”
“As a result of this, we will draw
ridicule. We will bring scorn upon ourselves, because powerful
people in institutions reject our understanding of marriage. They
reject what everyone understood marriage to be until yesterday. And
they claim that anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot, or a
hater, or is motivated by irrational animus, or archaic religious
beliefs. Yet we must suffer that, be willing to suffer that
opprobrium, perhaps discrimination, perhaps the loss of friends,
perhaps even conflict within the family, for the sake of rebuilding
marriage, because so much for people depends on it, and especially
for the poor.”