The predictable consequences of redefining marriage
by Tony Rucinski, Coalition for Marriage:
It’s 10 years since the first same-sex marriages took place in England and Wales.
Coalition for Marriage was formed in 2012 to oppose the freshly proposed legislation to introduce same-sex marriage. C4M’s public petition against the redefinition of marriage was signed by 669,444 people, demonstrating the broad public opposition to the move.
During this initial campaign, C4M made several predictions about what was likely to happen if same-sex marriage was legalised. Ten years later, it’s clear that many of these feared consequences have come to pass.
C4M predicted that support for marriage would reduce rather than increase as a result of the change. Today we see that most people in the UK are now not married, that the majority of births in England and Wales are out-of-wedlock and that unmarried cohabitation is the fastest-growing family type.
We predicted that it would lead to legal changes that eradicate sex-based language. The rise of gender ideology has borne this out, with many public bodies removing such terms from their documents.
Schools would be forced to teach about same-sex marriage, we said. In England, statutory guidance for primary school ‘Relationships Education’ makes clear that pupils should be taught about same-sex marriage. In Wales, teachers are told that pupils should be taught to “value” same-sex relationships. We also correctly predicted that parents would have no right to withdraw children from lessons on same-sex marriage.
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