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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 21 MAY 2017 21 IT'S GAY. BUT NOT MARRIAGE. All relationships matter. But not all relationships are Marriage. We respect everyone, be they teachers, nuns, gays, immigrants, or self-employed. We cherish our children dearly. We are grateful to mother nature and enjoy our pets' companionship. Respect is at the heart of it all. But the sanctity of marriage, between husband and wife, doesn't grant a right to everyone to marry anyone. Nor does it grant a right to cynical political leaders to incrementally beef up their standing at the ballot box by promising or enacting gay marriage laws for the 1%. Same-sex marriage is unnatural. It runs against natural law as designed by God and handed down to us through every generation in our Maltese history. This is why we take a stand for marriage as a union between husband and wife. If we don't take a public stand about what marriage is, our political parties will corrupt its meaning and enforce what it shouldn't be. The main electoral programs are glorifying sin, and no sin should be placed in the spotlight and glorified. God has a plan for your life. The political class has a plan for your life too. Be ready for both. Just be wise enough to know which one to battle and which one to embrace. Increasingly our political class treats the nation's treasury as a cookie jar in which it plunges its hands with wanton selfishness. Million euro payments to party law firms, contracts for cooked-up energy futures, and fake loan repayments in secretive banks are the order of the day. The authorities see nothing, do nothing. It's daylight rape against our families' meager fortunes and precarious future. "As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live," said St John Paull II. Let us join together for the courage and grace to defend the sanctity of marriage in the midst of a corrupt political class. Don't vote for gay marriage even if it means not voting at all. Instead, take a stand for traditional marriage. Don't compromise your faith at the altar of a diabolical political system. Call the Devil for what he truly is and embrace God instead. Our corrupt politicians think they are free to live as they choose, but they are NOT free to redefine Marriage for the rest of us. Find. Another. Word. Authorised by Maltese Catholics United for the Faith Standing for Faith and Family