Gay Marriage: For or Against?

[Aquila]

American culture already acknowledges unbiblical marriages legally. First, American culture legally recognizes the legal union between divorcees, regardless of the circumstance of the divorce(s) in question. Second, some states recognize Common Law Marriages as legal unions requiring legal dismissal if either party wishes to protect themselves in a court of law. Some states have even recognized polygamous marriages in the past.

If we were to fully affirm a biblical standard of marriage, we’d have to take a stand against the legalization of remarriage among divorcees (some faith traditions interpret an exception), common law marriages, and polygamy.

I know of a man who cheated on his wife, remarried to the woman he cheated with, and was later appointed to a position of elder in a church 8 years after remarrying. Wow.

Advocating remarriage weakens the value of traditional marriage because it allows Americans to think that they can always “try again if this doesn’t work out”. Not to mention the chaos it puts the children through. A disproportionate number of children are abused by step fathers/mothers. To ban remarriage would strengthen the family unit and protect the institution of marriage. To advocate the legalization of remarriage among divorcees contributes to the demise of the family, abuse of children, and shatters the sanctity of marriage.

To advocate Common Law Marriages is to weaken the social fabric and to shatter the sanctity of traditional marriage by allowing people to just shack up. It’s like legalizing fornication.

To allow polygamy is to destroy the sanctity of monogamous marriage. Abuse of young adults is often common in polygamous marriages as is arrangement of marriages.

My point is that from a civil law standpoint this entire premise goes crazy. Advocacy of individual liberty of conscience on the matter is best. Biblical churches will always stand for biblical marriage. If every conservative church came under fire for this position…it would be a political nightmare for the left. The public image of the church will shift from being that the church wants to deprive people of personal liberties to the church is under attack and now the leftwing extremists are attacking the liberties of well over half of all the churches in America. Actually…it could bring revival. It’s free advertising. The question of Christian liberties is now the subject of conversations in homes throughout America. A little “persecution” might be good for us.