Also Christ by participating in the Sacrament of Marriage showed us that he believed in the sanctity of marriage.
But Christ didn't marry (unless you believe the DiVinci Code, which upset people. Why? Because it claims that Jesus married and multiplied. Why would it bother someone to know that God supposedly commands them to multiply, and did so himself? The sex? Isn't that from God as well?)
Wheather we like it or not God created man and woman to live together and multiply.
The practical view of such a moral code and law would be to bring forth children who know who their parents are (!) so they do not end up marrying their brothers(!) and sisters(!) like the beasts do.
If God only created one man and one woman, it is inevitable that that their children would end up marrying their brothers(!) and sisters(!), if they didn't have sex with their parents.
As far as gay marriages I do not believe that ecclesiastically have any place in the Christian Church. As far as the State goes I would not have an objection since I believe in separation of Religion and State, since it is secular. The activists for gay marriages can believe whatever as long as they do not come to my door to advocate their theories! I do not go outside their door advocating against their lifestyle...either.
The media is full of advocacy for their rights. It is my right to resist their propaganda too though.
What prapaganda are we talking about?
Adam gets in an accident. Steve, his partner of 10 years, isn't allowed into the ICU because he isn't "family." His parents decide to put him on life support, against Adam's wishes that he discussed with Steve. Steve has no legal standing.
Is this just?
I knew of a couple where one died of AIDS. The family came in, and demanded half of everything. The man was forced to sell his house, all of his belongings, and his car, and give them half of the cash that belonged to their son.
Financially, this is awful. But imagine your wife or husband dying, and your in-laws doing this to you. Is it moral? Ethical? Loving your neighbor as yourself? Or is negative, hurtful and selfish?
ER showed a situation (that has happened) where a lesbian couple had a child. The birth mother died of cancer, and the birth mother's parents took custody, and there was no legal protection for the other mother.
In other words, the grandparents broke up what was left of the family. I can't imagine the devastation someone would feel in that situation, or the coldness of heart someone must have to take away another's only child.
I pray for them that they might see the light of Christ shinning upon their heats that some day they would see their true calling in Christ. I believe that God will judge us too about witnessing to them in love and respect. Trying not to judge them, but at the same time holding firm in our teachings as Christians.
Hope I made sense of what I am trying to say here...
Sorry for taking too long of a post.
Thanks,
In Chist,
God bless!
I pray, as well, that one day "they will know they are Christians by their love." What happened to that part of Christianity? Humility? Kindness? Gentleness? Caring for their fellowman?
Don't get me wrong. I appreciate that you try not to judge, hold firm, and witness in love and respect. But it seems what people are supposedly "protecting" is not marriage, but the right to ban gays from marrying.
If one really cared about the family, they would support education. They would help families make ends meet. They would provide universal health care, so that people could afford to care for their children, or their elderly parents.
But instead, the want to simply ban gay marriage (which continues the hospital situation, the problem of property rights, custody, etc.)
And the current political environment is trying to make it a US amendment, the first amendment that would actually prevent citizens rights, rather than protect them.
When the US comes to that, then we all need to pray for the country that has become the antithesis of it's original intention.