Legality of Same Sex Marriage

[Lafon]

A "HOT BUTTON ISSUE" I know, but it must be said (and I'm not ashamed to do so):

Presently on the docket awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, is the legality of so-called "Same Sex Marriage."

In an attempt to lend a degree of credibility to deviant homosexual behavior, it has been said by some that "Sexual behavior is an expression of human love.”

I beg to differ. All "sexual behavior" is an expression of the 'natural' (the Creator made us that way, you know) lust of the flesh, regardless of whether such 'behavior' be between a male and a female, or those of the same sexual gender. While the former is altogether proper, the latter is not!

It really is just that simple, although it seems that the majority of contemporary society refutes this!

[Windwalker]

Luke 17:26-30 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. "People" were eating, drinking, "marrying and being given in marriage" up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all."It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed...Revelation 1:7 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.

[Aquila]

Sex is only one dimension of love. There is the love between friends. There is the unconditional love for another. And then there is the loving desire to share a "oneness" with another that we love. Often friends evolve into mates... and eros completes their union. In the Song of Solomon sexual desire and actions are the perfect symbol of two souls in love longing to complete their union.

Sex symbolizes something beautiful. We see two becoming one. A "Oneness". And when two natures are made one, new life comes forth. We see this when God combines His divinity with humanity in the womb of Mary, and Christ is conceived. This union is also a symbol of Christ and the Church. Spiritually speaking, Christ takes His bride to be His own in the most intimate way. When this happens we realize that we are "in Christ"... and "Christ in us". We become one spirit with the Lord just as lovers become one flesh (I Cor. 6:16).

Our entire lives are designed to express our desire to "become one" with not just another... but with God. This is why it is so sacred.

[Aquila]

As for "gay marriage". I don't believe such a thing exists in God's eyes. However, it is inevitable in a country built on personal liberty, living according to one's conscience, and privacy.

Frankly, the GOVERNMENT shouldn't be in the marriage business at all. It should be a private contract. The courts should only come into the picture of two don't agree on the terms of divorce.

Just my opinion.

[MemphisTN]

Originally Posted by Lafon

A "HOT BUTTON ISSUE" I know, but it must be said (and I'm not ashamed to do so):

Presently on the docket awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, is the legality of so-called "Same Sex Marriage."

In an attempt to lend a degree of credibility to deviant homosexual behavior, it has been said by some that "Sexual behavior is an expression of human love.”

I beg to differ. All "sexual behavior" is an expression of the 'natural' (the Creator made us that way, you know) lust of the flesh, regardless of whether such 'behavior' be between a male and a female, or those of the same sexual gender. While the former is altogether proper, the latter is not!

It really is just that simple, although it seems that the majority of contemporary society refutes this!

what do you say then to those who are born with BOTH female and Male parts? And what do you say then to those who are born in the wrong body????? We need to learn to accept what God has made because he does not make mistakes.

[MemphisTN]

I sure would like to know what Jonathan and David were talking about when one said to the other, I love you more than the love of a WOMAN. No one can ever explain that one.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by MemphisTN

what do you say then to those who are born with BOTH female and Male parts? And what do you say then to those who are born in the wrong body????? We need to learn to accept what God has made because he does not make mistakes.

Born in the wrong body?

[Pliny]

Originally Posted by MemphisTN

what do you say then to those who are born with BOTH female and Male parts? And what do you say then to those who are born in the wrong body????? We need to learn to accept what God has made because he does not make mistakes.

First hermaphrodites are rare and not natural. Unnatural deviations occur for many reasons but all are present because of the fallen world in which we live. Some deviations occur because drug use. Some deviations occur because of incest. We do not necessarily know why all deviations occur yet we see their affects. These deviations cannot be said to be "God ordained" (the "will" of God).

Hermaphroditic deviations may have unknown causes but that does not necessitate the "will" of God. More often than not things happen because of choices we make. As to the deviations stipulated here typically only one set of "plumbing" works meaning the person is what the working plumbing indicates.

BTW this is a Red Herring and has little to nothing to do with the thread because it focuses on a statistically rare abberation instead of dealing with the subject matter. Judgement by exception is nonsense because there will always be exceptions to every rule.


As to being "born in the wrong body" - your words... You have presented your own logic with a conundrum. If God created it how can it be the wrong body? Does your God make mistakes? Your own statement reveals the fallacy of the logic...

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by Pliny

First hermaphrodites are rare and not natural. Unnatural deviations occur for many reasons but all are present because of the fallen world in which we live. Some deviations occur because drug use. Some deviations occur because of incest. We do not necessarily know why all deviations occur yet we see their affects. These deviations cannot be said to be "God ordained" (the "will" of God).

Hermaphroditic deviations may have unknown causes but that does not necessitate the "will" of God. More often than not things happen because of choices we make. As to the deviations stipulated here typically only one set of "plumbing" works meaning the person is what the working plumbing indicates.

BTW this is a Red Herring and has little to nothing to do with the thread because it focuses on a statistically rare abberation instead of dealing with the subject matter. Judgement by exception is nonsense because there will always be exceptions to every rule.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by MemphisTN

I sure would like to know what Jonathan and David were talking about when one said to the other, I love you more than the love of a WOMAN. No one can ever explain that one.

Are you insinuating that David and Jonathan were homosexuals?