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 1 1      |          promoting the dignity of marriage, the foundation of the family,
 2 1(1)   |          March 25, 1994); Family, marriage and “de facto” unions (July
 3 [Title]|                  I. THE NATURE OF MARRIAGE~AND ITS INALIENABLE CHARACTERISTICS~
 4 2      |          The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity
 5 2      |      major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship
 6 2      |         spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a
 7 3      |           The natural truth about marriage was confirmed by the Revelation
 8 3      |         of the Creator's plan for marriage, as narrated in the Book
 9 3      |     nature and spirit are united.~Marriage is instituted by the Creator
10 3      |      belong to the very nature of marriage.~Furthermore, the marital
11 3      |     Church teaches that Christian marriage is an efficacious sign of
12 3      |         This Christian meaning of marriage, far from diminishing the
13 4      |       analogous to God's plan for marriage and family. Marriage is
14 4      |          for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual
15 5      |       unions legal equivalence to marriage properly so-called, along
16 5      |         ideas about sexuality and marriage that would deprive them
17 5      |           and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition
18 6      |     analogous to those granted to marriage, to unions between persons
19 6      |        duty to promote and defend marriage as an institution essential
20 6      | devaluation of the institution of marriage.~From the biological and
21 7      |       anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be
22 7      |        assistance of the sexes in marriage and are open to the transmission
23 8      |         to the family, founded on marriage. The inevitable consequence
24 8      |      would be the redefinition of marriage, which would become, in
25 8      |        from the legal standpoint, marriage between a man and a woman
26 8      |         just one possible form of marriage, the concept of marriage
27 8      |          marriage, the concept of marriage would undergo a radical
28 8      |        plane analogous to that of marriage and the family, the State
29 8      |        social and legal status of marriage to forms of cohabitation
30 8      |      fulfil the purpose for which marriage and family deserve specific
31 11     |    recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family,
32 11     |         them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the