So homosexuals can now legally marry in all 50 states. It looks like unicorns that only eat skittles have puked all over social media. There are more rainbows than a 10 year olds watercolor paintings. Everyone has weighed in and sides are chosen and words exchanged. So here is my view on the whole thing, like anyone really needs one more opinion.
In a democracy, with an open government that is ruled by the people, our society does and needs to reflect the people of the country. Marriage is a rule of law in a government system and therefore needs to be equal. If that means giving homosexuals the right to marry, then the government should afford that right to homosexuals. The ability to destroy the institution of arraignment should be available to all people. It shouldn't be just a heterosexual issue, let's all trash marriage.
Now you may think I am saying sarcastically, but I'm serious. We have destroyed marriage long before the homosexuals decided they wanted a piece of the action. At it's foundation, marriage was about a man and a woman, two incomplete people coming together making a more complete whole. We once understood that men and women were different. They have different strengths, different weaknesses. Long before this idea of gender neutral, we understood that God made them male and female, instead of God making them men and surgery and hormone replacement making them female. We got it, and we put men and women together to form the basic core unit of the family. That combination, two becoming one flesh usually resulted in children. Yes, some couldn't have children, but most could. That unit was the family and it was the core of community. The family unit then helped to build the community, they contributed and invested and sacrificed. The community came together to build a society which built a nation. We were much less focused on the good of the one, more on the good of the whole.
Then we decided one day that we are all about us. We are about what is good for me. What is going to make me happy. We decided that if community doesn't make me happy, I find a new one, or just leave it all together. If marriage doesn't make me happy, I just get a divorce and find someone else. Now, I can choose if I like men or women or both, or I can switch. It's all about what makes me happy. I have kids because they make me happy, and if I begin to have a kid and that isn't what I want, I can abort it. We just change our minds based on what we want.
The issue isn't choice or freedom or equal rights. The point is that we are so selfish that we have begun to worship ourselves, and Romans 1 tells us that when we do that, God gives us over to our depravity. We will then do whatever we think will make us happy. News flash, homosexuals won't be happy with this, there will be something else later. Maybe polygamy or the push for the removal of age limits so I can marry a 14 year old, or whatever. The self will never be happy, there always must be something else.
Is homosexuality wrong? Bible says it's just as wrong as any sex outside marriage, even if the homosexuals are married. Why? Telling two guys they are married doesn't mean God says they are married, it means the state says they are married. In the Bible, God made them male, God made them female and for this reason and man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh. God makes this happen, not the word marriage, not the state, not the Supreme Court.
It's wrong, but so is abortion, sex outside of marriage, most divorces are wrong, and a list of other things. It doesn't change anything and it really doesn't matter. Pride and anger and lust and greed are wrong and we are all full of those things. I'm wrong every day and so are you. That's not the problem. The problem is that we are saying it's not wrong, it's ok and we are told not to say it's wrong. The truth is we need Jesus to save us from our sin. From our greed and lust and pride and murder and perversion. Yes, I said perversion. We all need Jesus, me and you and the two guys who got married today.
The ground is equal at the cross.
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