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Really great article by [font=Arial, Helvetica][size=-1]D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.[/size][/font]
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he wisest man to walk the planetsomeone who shaped Western civilizationexplained marriage some 2,000 years ago. Maybe its worth knowing what he said.
Have you not read, Christ said, that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Here we have the short answer why marriage is always the union of a man and a woman and never the union of two men or two women. The Creator said soand He makes the rules. He designed the different but complementary physical, emotional, and mental, characteristics of men and women that are the stuff of which marriages are made. Vive la difference!
For those with ears to hear, God and our nature shout the same message about marriage: Its a man and a woman for life. But for those who dismiss God and nature (not recommended) here are a few more reasons why same-sex marriage is a cultural catastrophe in the making.
First, harm to children. Social science research strongly supports the common-sense observation that children do best when raised by their married mother and father. Twelve family scholars surveyed thousands of studies and reached the conclusion that Marriage [traditional marriage] is an important social good associated with an impressively broad array of positive outcomes for children and adults alike. Children raised by their married parents are less likely to experience child poverty, commit suicide, commit crimes, suffer physical or sexual child abuse, or to divorce later in life.
So when Rosie ODonnells then six-year-old son told her, I want to have a daddy, he was pleading not just for what he wants, but for what he needs. Rosies response, shared on ABCs Primetime Thursday, is to tell her son, If you were to have a daddy you wouldnt have me as a mommy because Im the kind of mommy who wants another mommy. So much for putting children first.
Three decades into Americas epidemic of fatherlessness, we know that depriving children of fathers damages them and their future. Same-sex marriage will rob children of what they need most: the love and nurture of both a mother and a father.
Rest of article at link
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1272492.html
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he wisest man to walk the planetsomeone who shaped Western civilizationexplained marriage some 2,000 years ago. Maybe its worth knowing what he said.
Have you not read, Christ said, that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Here we have the short answer why marriage is always the union of a man and a woman and never the union of two men or two women. The Creator said soand He makes the rules. He designed the different but complementary physical, emotional, and mental, characteristics of men and women that are the stuff of which marriages are made. Vive la difference!
For those with ears to hear, God and our nature shout the same message about marriage: Its a man and a woman for life. But for those who dismiss God and nature (not recommended) here are a few more reasons why same-sex marriage is a cultural catastrophe in the making.
First, harm to children. Social science research strongly supports the common-sense observation that children do best when raised by their married mother and father. Twelve family scholars surveyed thousands of studies and reached the conclusion that Marriage [traditional marriage] is an important social good associated with an impressively broad array of positive outcomes for children and adults alike. Children raised by their married parents are less likely to experience child poverty, commit suicide, commit crimes, suffer physical or sexual child abuse, or to divorce later in life.
So when Rosie ODonnells then six-year-old son told her, I want to have a daddy, he was pleading not just for what he wants, but for what he needs. Rosies response, shared on ABCs Primetime Thursday, is to tell her son, If you were to have a daddy you wouldnt have me as a mommy because Im the kind of mommy who wants another mommy. So much for putting children first.
Three decades into Americas epidemic of fatherlessness, we know that depriving children of fathers damages them and their future. Same-sex marriage will rob children of what they need most: the love and nurture of both a mother and a father.
Rest of article at link
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1272492.html
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