Empty gesture reflects the Establishment

WHEN political parties wish to get controversial legislation on the statute book (like same-sex marriage) they fail to put it in their manifesto, knowing they would lose votes, but then implement it when in power. Latest bright idea, mothers’ names will be included on marriage certificates for the first time under a digital revolution. A HOME Office spokesman said that the current legislation is “outdated”.

However, it was marriage and motherhood that were seen as “outdated” by our governing elites until LGBT + campaign demanded “equal marriage” and the right to acquire children, either by fostering or adopting heterosexuals’ children, or creating their own via reproductive technology, helped by large amounts of taxpayers’ money.

If it made it easier for people to track their family histories it might be welcomed, but fewer and fewer couples are getting married, a decline accelerated by the introduction of same-sex marriage. None the less, if it encouraged respect for motherhood by serving as a useful reminder that even samesex couples have mothers, it might be worth while.

The overriding message is that even a man can be a mother, but for real women, motherhood is something that is constantly denigrated, treated as worse than a disability, a basic cause of inequality that they must have the choice to eradicate.

Since nothing at all can be done these days if it is opposed by the LGBT+ campaign, we are forced to treat this measure for what it is – an empty gesture that does however accurately reflect the moral emptiness of our progressive establishment.