The Cape Town Declaration is the Universal Declaration on the Family and Marriage. Spanning the globe, we have no common tongue, culture, or creed. We are divided by history and geography, by social customs and forms of government. But in foundations, we are united. We are of one mind on the bedrock of civil society, on the basis of that first and primordial community called the family We affirm the dignity of marriage as the conjugal bond of man and woman. We embrace it not as the parochial practice of an