Posted on 04/05/2015 10:07:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
For the last 5500+ years, wedding ceremonies have been sacred—set apart as holy, and reserved only for those who qualify…one man and one woman. Since the beginning of time, it has been the absolute standard as a foundation of families, of our society, and of civilization as we know it. All civilizations that have violated that standard have eventually fallen, often with nothing left to show for their existence but rubble. As the rest of the world looked on in horror, all they had left were the hard lessons to be learned for their neighbor’s devastating mistakes.
There is absolute truth. Aspiring to absolute truth gives us a reason for living. Within a given culture, truth cannot be truth for one person and not for another. It is a standard. If we cannot agree on a set of absolutes, we cannot live peacefully as a society.
At one time, we all lived in agreement on our set of absolutes. And we all agreed on the source of those absolutes. We used those absolutes for the basis of our laws. But somewhere along the way, some among us refused the hard lessons learned from the rubble of other civilizations. Just as it says in Ecclesiastes 1:9, there is nothing new under the sun—these mistakes are not new ones.
Being manipulated or coerced to become an active participant in violating one of those absolute truths violates the very foundation of life. No one has the right to take away another’s beliefs any more than they have the right to take their away their lives. We are born with a right of belief, as the founding fathers put it, it is inherent or self-evident. This is why the 1st amendment is...
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“one man and one woman.” One flesh. Cannot be separated.
“For the last 5500+ years, wedding ceremonies have been sacred—set apart as holy, and reserved only for those who qualify…one man and one woman.”
One man and one woman, at one time.
Exactly. Rinse and repeat.
“If a homosexual couple wants to get married, that’s their decision to make.”
Here, the writer makes a fatal error in logic. It is NOT their decision.
First, God does not recognize their “marriage”. He reserved marriage for a man and a woman. Genesis 3 and Matthew 19 clearly teach this.
Secondly, the writer does not take into account the state ‘sanctioning’ the marriage. It is not their decision “alone”. The state, in our country the people, must agree to recognize and support the laws. We don’t support this recognition.
Third, the writer makes no effort whatsoever to link our laws to any moral foundation. The foundational laws of this country were tied to Christianity and Judeo-Christian ethics. The past 50 years have seen a steady erosion of that tie.
Unless we “re-tie” our laws to Christian ethics and morals, this nation is finished. We will be no better than the godless Communists and the utter destruction they wreak on society.
Read the whole article - the author addresses the relationship with God thoroughly, as well as the nature of God-given rights.
Your timeframe and your one-woman provision are historically inaccurate.
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