An argument that is often brought up by the liberals who push for gay marriage is that it is a civil rights issue, but marriage is a moral issue, not a civil issue. Indeed, marriage is recognized by the government, and sanctioned by the government, but not created and maintained by the government. Marriage predated the US constitution, and the bounds of matrimony are not decided by mortal lawmakers, but the Supreme Lawgiver. Since God is the founder of marriage, and God commanded that marriage not be put asunder, and God clearly defined marriage for all of humanity, no group of people have the authority to change what God has put together. Man has no more ability or right to change the definition of marriage than he has to change the definition of church, or change God's word. You may say "that is discrimination!", and you would be correct. That is discrimination, but what is wrong with discernment? To discriminate means to make a difference, to distinguish, to treat differently, and again, what is wrong with that when it comes to gay marriage? We must distinguish between right and wrong, we should treat two men, who falsely claim to unite in marriage, differently than a man and a woman. It is wrong to treat someone poorly because of the way they look, or the way they speak, but we must discriminate between right and wrong. God clearly discriminates between who can and can't be married. I do not discriminate against people getting married, every person in the world can get married, as God defined marriage. The suggestion that gay marriage can be related to racism and civil rights issue is absurd. The homosexual can get married, if they repent of their sins and find a spouse of the opposite sex. How can speaking out and taking a stand against immorality be immoral? How can standing against immoral behavior be a moral crime? They say that this issue is, for our time, what slavery was over a century ago, and that just because marriage always has been, in the past, between a man and a woman, doesn’t make it right. They use the example of the centuries of slavery, and simply because there always was slavery, did not make it right. But time never changes the truth. What was true 1,000 years ago is true today. Slavery that existed 200 years ago, when a man was taken from his home by menstealers and forced to labor against his will was morally wrong, as the slave had no choice in the matter, he was stolen. Homosexual marriage is a conscience choice to sin against the God of creation, and gay marriage is an attempt to and change an existing institutions boundaries that they have no right nor authority to change, which is also morally wrong.
Another argument is given by homosexual marriage proponents is love. "Here are two people who love each other, and want to become married, what is wrong with that, they aren't hurting anyone, and they love each other", or they say "two people in a committed relationship, desire to make a lifelong commitment, why won't you allow that?” or something along those lines. “Two people who love each other, and want nothing but to express their love just like you did, what is wrong with that?” Well, what is our answer? What do we say to people who say they love someone and want to get married? Does the love for a particular sin ever make it right? A love for a particular evil never excuses the practice. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked and thus not a very good gauge for right and wrong. Morality based solely on feelings springs from a desperately wicked, every fickle source. Some people love to be drunk, does that excuse that behavior? Not only do they love to be drunk, but if it were possible, they would live drunk, and forever shun sobriety. They love to talk about strong drink, love the taste, love how it makes them feel. Every fiber of their being enjoys the sin of drunkenness, but does that make it right? Science tells us that some people inherited the propensity of alcoholism, and within their DNA resides a natural longing for drunkenness, but does that excuse the behavior? Some people love to murder, some love to steal. Some love to commit adultery, does their love for those crimes excuse them? Of course it doesn't, and neither will love for any other sin excuse the execution of that sin.
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