Friday, September 09, 2005
Marriage: To Sodom we go...
Special interest groups in San Francisco almost did it. The California Legislature tried to pass a same sex marriage "law" when the voters in that state have already defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. According to Assemblyman Mark Leno, Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger bowed to political pressure by "special interest groups" to veto the change by the legsislature.
5 years ago 61% of voters chose to define marriage as being bewteen a man and a woman. The new bill, AB 849 deletes the phrase "a man and a woman" from California's marriage laws and replaces it with "two persons."
What does scripture tell us about this issue? Starting with Genesis, chapter 2 verse 18:
"The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable fro him.' Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. The the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she chall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.'
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
What does this mean? It defines marriage as a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman. God has defined this, not man. Mr. Leno would have us ignore a basic fact of creation for a secular definition. Why? Because the "union" of a man and a man or a woman and a woman is sinful in the eyes of God but mans eyes can be closed to this fact by ascribing a "normal" context to the sinful union. If we define marriage as a union between two persons then we begin to go down the path of Sodom and Gomorrah. The next change would be to add the words, "or more" so that a marriage would be between "two or more persons."
Let he who has ears to hear, hear.
5 years ago 61% of voters chose to define marriage as being bewteen a man and a woman. The new bill, AB 849 deletes the phrase "a man and a woman" from California's marriage laws and replaces it with "two persons."
What does scripture tell us about this issue? Starting with Genesis, chapter 2 verse 18:
"The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable fro him.' Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. The the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she chall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.'
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
What does this mean? It defines marriage as a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman. God has defined this, not man. Mr. Leno would have us ignore a basic fact of creation for a secular definition. Why? Because the "union" of a man and a man or a woman and a woman is sinful in the eyes of God but mans eyes can be closed to this fact by ascribing a "normal" context to the sinful union. If we define marriage as a union between two persons then we begin to go down the path of Sodom and Gomorrah. The next change would be to add the words, "or more" so that a marriage would be between "two or more persons."
Let he who has ears to hear, hear.
