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As crowds of thousands pass through city streets to express their support for the values of the Family, parades are held elsewhere to highlight beliefs that degrade this most important and fundamental social group. When some consider family and marriage a source of joy and happiness, others consider it a restriction of freedom and an expression of embarrassment.
From year to year, more and more people join the Marches for Life and Family, those who see the need to manifest in public space the importance of the family. Over the last four years, the number of cities participating in this campaign has increased from 16 to approx. 140. But growing tendencies also appear on the opposite side. Support – especially from the mainstream – is also gaining circles that are driven by justice understood as ensuring unlimited freedoms for secularized groups displaying the slogan: “Equal rights is a common cause”.
Are the people who strongly support the liberal trend of thought really striving for equal rights for all? Or are purely selfish tendencies manifested in this (at first glance) tolerant exclamation? After all, while it is possible to understand and support pro-family attitudes and the defense of life, especially the most defenseless ones, it becomes less clear to act against these rights in the name of broadly – or perhaps wrongly – understood freedom. After all, freedom is not defined by the notion of unrestricted freedom, as Benedict XVI wrote. So, is it possible to so readily preach the necessity of equality while limiting and even destroying the eternal laws established by the natural order (believers would say by God’s law) ??
The danger of this type of aspirations was pointed out by Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noting that the introduction of hommarriage is a discrimination against the marital relationship between a man and a woman, and thus also against the family. Shouldn’t taking actions aimed at exposing the dissimilarity, or rather the equality (because it is about manifesting homosexual behavior) be considered a manifestation of discrimination against communities that respect natural rights and Christian values?
Public opinion focused around the mainstream takes all measures in a more or less expressive way to force Christians to show their faith narrowly to the private sphere. Of course, this is not a new phenomenon, although maybe today it has taken a slightly different form. For analogically, just like contemporary artists, celebrities advocate – not so much equality, but uniformity, as once reported by G. Orwell – in literary circles it was considered “quirk” when someone was not more or less “on the left.” And just as the conviction that a writer must be an active leftist, otherwise he is a bad writer – today, when someone does not support modern solutions and the prevailing trends – began to gain popularity, he could be labeled as backward. But why should these centuries-old traditions be limited to the private zone only because a new trend has come?
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