{"id":9866,"date":"2013-02-08T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9866"},"modified":"2013-02-08T00:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:53:10","slug":"michel-serres-on-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/michel-serres-on-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Serres on Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michel<\/a>Our friend Cathie Fournier facebook-forwarded a lovely quote by French philosopher Michel Serres, which I thought would be worthwhile to English. I don’t know the context in which he said or wrote it, except that the French\u00a0parliament\u00a0is discussing gay marriage right now! Here it is:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis question of gay marriage interests me, given the answer the ecclesiastical hierarchy brings to it. Since the first century after Jesus-Christ, the model of the family has been that of the church, that of the Holy Family.<\/p>\n

But let us examine the Holy Family. In the Holy Family, the father is not the father: Joseph is not Jesus\u2019 father. The son is not the son: Jesus is the son of God, not the son of Joseph. Joseph, he has never made love to his wife. Concerning the mother, she is the mother indeed, but she is a virgin. The Holy Family, that\u2019s what Levi-Strauss called the elementary structure of kinship. A structure that breaks completely with ancient genealogy, based until then on filiation: one is Jewish through the mother. There are three types of filiation: natural filiation, recognition of paternity and adoption. In the Holy Family, what is blocked is both natural filiation and recognition; only adoption remains.<\/p>\n

Thus, since the Gospel according to Luke, the Church proposes as model for the family an elementary structure based on adoption: it is no longer a question of making children, but of choosing oneself, to the point where we are parents, you will be parents, father and mother, only if you say to your child \u201cI have chosen you,\u201d \u201cI adopt you because I love you,\u201d \u201c it is you I wanted.\u201d And reciprocally, the child also chooses his parents because he loves them.<\/p>\n

Thus to me the position of the Church concerning homosexual marriage is perfectly mysterious: this problem was solved some 2000 years ago. I suggest that the whole catholic hierarchy should reread the Gospel according to Luke. Or to convert.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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