Canadian Marriage
Well Canada seems to be on the glide path to approve Gay marraige sometime
in 2005. This will put additional pressure on the US to accept / embrace
Gay marriage, instead of the trend toward legalized civil unions.
Fundementally though the issue is not one of law. Both hetrosexual and
homosexual couples can and do live togather outside of marriage throughout
the US. Many times the results of these relationships are children outside
of marriage. Many of these relationships have legal means / ways of
providing all the access and issues that married couples have.
Fundementally the issue is one of faith and one of beliefs. Most would
agree that God is against divorce in most, if not all, cases. Most would
also agree that God hates divorce, yet there has been a acceptance of it
within the body of Christ. In the past the Bible was used to condemn
interrational marriage (which is now common and accepted within most
churches), slavery (which all churches have rejected now), spouse domination
(which has been greatly condemend within the body now), but all of those are
different. To accept the previous list it took Chrisians seeing the error
in their ways and seeing people as God created them, as equal, and unique.
The acceptance of gay marraige requires the step to say that God’s unique
design was wrong, that some how His decsion to make male and female was
flawed, and that in some cases He creates people that desire something
outside of the order He created.
Gay marraige does not change the marriages of those that take their marriage
covenent seriously any more then divorce does, what it does do though is
make the statement that God makes mistakes and flaws and errors and that His
design is not perfect. That leads to a fundemental question of if God even
exisist, because if He is flawed and His creation is imperfect He is not
God.
So, the question of gay marriage really is not about if it affects you, it
is how it affects society and those that affects all in society.
Well we are very glad you came around and hope to hear from you again soon on this issue and any others. Feel freed to post a topic yourself as well.
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webmaster — 1/8/2005 @ 4:32 pm