Yesterday 360 members of the House of Lords  voted to replace long-standing terms such as “widow” with phrases such as “woman whose deceased spouse was a man” or “that person’s surviving spouse”.  Terms such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ will become redundant. Many centuries-old Statutes were amended in anticipation of the Same-Sex Marriage laws which come into effect later this month.

Wittgenstein wrote, “Change a language and you change a world.” To which we might add, “Destroy a language and you destroy a world.” The very best that can be said about the changes is that they are excessively cumbersome. We know instinctively that something has gone profoundly wrong – it’s sick actually – when it now takes seven words to say what was ever before said by one word.

We might as well have some fun before the whole house burns down. So, for a moment, consider some of the dafter consequences of this syntactical genocide. The posters advertising the pantomime will have to be much bigger as Widow Twanky will henceforth be billed as, The Twanky Woman Whose Deceased Spouse Was A Man. (But how long before the terms “man” and “woman” become victims of the same genocide?) The changes will make our common language impenetrable. I mean for instance, how will the biblical translators render the sentence, “A man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife”? I know: “A person will leave his or her parents and shack up with their spouse person.” Or perhaps something even more convoluted.

I don’t care what our leaders say in their promotion of this scandalous destruction not only of our language but of everything which forever before we regarded as our way of life. The new definitions of human relationships are a satanic invention. They are not trivial. Words are never trivial, for the choice of words determines what is being said.

What these new configurations of devilish babel really mean is the end of the natural covenant between a man and a woman with its connection to the procreation of children. It entails the abolition of the family. It proclaims that there is no longer anything right or wrong except that our atheistic, nihilistic society thinks it so.   Anything Goes – though the devil’s bureaucrats could never put it so succinctly.

The consequences will be catastrophic. The customs and society which have defined and preserved us for millennia are dead. And ourselves with them. This is the Judgement. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.