In order to defend our culture and the values that culture is founded upon we use the government to legally define marriage as one man joined to one woman.Good grief, man, that's like asking the Government "to defend our values and culture" by establishing a legal definition of "Christianity".
It is morally wrong thing to do such a thing in the first place (that is, to invite the State into that which is Biblically reserved to the Church), and it is guaranteed to fail and damage that which it tries to "defend".
Which is, of course, exactly what we are seeing right now with Marriage, isn't it??
Since the State is doing such a good job "defending our values and culture" by establishing a Legal Definition of Marriage, why don't we also ask them to "defend our values and culture" by establishing a Legal Definition of Christianity??
Don't worry... they're from the Government, they're here to help.
Marriage is of God.
From the beginning God made them man and woman. A man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife; and they 2 shall become one flesh. Those are Jesus' words. They highlight that the original marriage was performed quite nicely by God and that no state representative was present.
Jesus' words also highlight that it will be impossible in the eyes of God for a man and a man or a woman and a woman to unite and become one flesh.
Sodomy can never result in Godly marriage. Therefore OrthoPresby is 100% correct. God has already defined marriage. We have no need of the state to help us with that definition....unless, of course, we have no qualms about it being perverted.