FAMILIES, BECOME WHO YOU ARE!
The
headlines read: “A Pregnant Man: It’s Incredible!” “He’s Having Their
Baby!” “Pregnant Man Stuns Medical Profession.” The whole frenzy is over
the story of a man, Thomas Beatie, living in with a woman, who decided
that he will be the one who will get pregnant since the woman had her
womb removed by hysterectomy (because she thinks she’s a man). But
reading through the article, we discover that “he” (Thomas), is actually
a “she.” So much for media sensationalism.
Thomas Beatie was born Tracy Lagondino, a woman who decided she wanted
to be a man. She had her breasts surgically removed (mutilated is the
proper word), and began injecting herself with large doses of
testosterone to make herself look and sound like a man. And so came the
transformation — she became a he. From the Tracy Lagondino story, we
learn that truth is not a matter of personal opinion. Truth does not
depend on what one feels or sees. She may look and feel like a man, but
deep inside, she is still the woman God created and intended her to be.
That’s why she became pregnant.
Today, many countries debate over the real definition of marriage and
the family. Should it really be between a man and a woman? The late
Archbishop Fulton Sheen is known to have once said, “Truth is truth even
if no one believes it. Error is error even if everybody believes it.”
Truth is not subjective, i.e., what I feel or think. Truth is primarily
objective, based on the reality and nature of a thing — the natural
moral law.
We say that the family is the basic unit of society because the family
is pre-political. Before there was even a government or state, the
family was there already. In a sense, the family is above the state. It
is not the State that defines the family; on the contrary, it is the
family that occasioned the creation of the State. The State’s reason for
being is to protect the institution of the family. Thus, it is not for
the state to define the nature of the family.
Let this be the grace that we ask from God today, on the feast of the Holy Family. Fr. Joel Jason
REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Is your idea of the truth subjective? Do you act on the basis of what is convenient for you?
Open our eyes, Lord, that we may see the beauty of Your truth.
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