Marriage and Sexual Ethics
Restore Europe recognizes civil marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and centres family law on the natural family.
Positions
This catalogue answers a narrow question: what does Restore Europe hold on this issue? It does not replace the manifesto. The manifesto sets out the worldview; this sets out searchable, topic-by-topic positions.
Where Catholic moral teaching is clear, Restore Europe generally adopts it as the moral baseline, and states civil-law implementation separately. One departure is recorded explicitly: on capital punishment Restore Europe takes the older traditional allowance for exceptional cases rather than the contemporary abolitionist position.
The catalogue distinguishes the constitutional order Restore Europe seeks from European law as it currently stands. Several positions — on nationality, on deprivation of citizenship, on speech, on the public standing of religion and on capital punishment — would require constitutional or treaty change before they could be enacted in particular European states. Where that is so, the entry says it.
Version 0.2 settles the questions version 0.1 had left open: the European institutional relationship, asylum, deportation, wages, taxation, pensions, housing, labour representation, digital identity and currency, biometric surveillance, genetic engineering, sentencing, the energy mix and every standing question of foreign policy. Where a v0.2 formulation revised an earlier entry, the newer text governs.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.
10 of 89 positions match.
I
The place of religion in public life, and the moral questions law cannot avoid.
Restore Europe recognizes civil marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and centres family law on the natural family.
II
The household as the first institution, and what public policy owes it.
A safety net directed primarily at citizens, families and those genuinely unable to support themselves, expressing solidarity without becoming permanent avoidable dependency.
III
Membership of a political community, and the European order between nations.
Protection should facilitate self-sufficiency rather than permanent welfare dependency.
IV
Ownership, enterprise, credit and the dignity of labour.
Every worker is entitled to a just wage sufficient for a dignified life and the reasonable support of a family.
A mixed pension system should combine basic old-age security with occupational provision, personal savings, family property and intergenerational responsibility.
VI
What is transmitted to the next generation, and who decides it.
Homeschooling should be legal and protected, because parents are the primary educators of their children.
Schools may teach factual reproductive biology, but moral formation on sexuality belongs primarily to parents and chosen religious institutions.
VII
Authority, its limits, and the treatment of those who break the law.
Punishment should be proportionate to gravity and culpability, protect society, provide restitution where possible and pursue rehabilitation where realistic.
The death penalty may be legally available, but not mandatory, for the most aggravated forms of rape and child sexual abuse.
VIII
Access to necessary care, and the ethics practised within it.
Universal access to essential and medically necessary care, with safeguards against overuse and waste.