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The ideology that marriage is only for heterosexual couples thus threatens the sanctity of marriage and traditional values (Edwards, 2007). In an open pastoral letter called “Don’t Mess with Marriage”, the Catholic Church has opposed same-sex marriage claiming it goes against traditional values, for instance, children are conceived through a natural result of through marital life (Ikin, 2015). A South Australian bishop stated children of same-sex couples will see themselves as another stolen generation because they have been denied a mother or father (Ikin,