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To: Graybeard58; stuartcr; pgkdan; woweeitsme; panzerkamphwageneinz; PGR88; Repulican Donkey; ...
Greybeard58, this is a very good article and I thank you for posting it.

I think the problem isn't "gays". The problem is that most churches have already abandoned most of the constitutive elements of Biblical marriage.

According to Scripture, marriage is defined as man-woman (Genesis 2, referenced also by Jesus); lifelong (prophet Malachi says God "hates" divorce, Jesus says that a person who marries a divorced person is committing adultery); and procreative ("be fruitful and multiply"-- but implied by the very fact that they are malke and female: this is part of the natural "design".)

There is not a single instance of sexual partnering that is man-woman, lifelong, and procreative, that is condemned in he Bible. There is not a single instance of sexual partnering that is same-sex, non-lifelong, or anti-procreative, that is blessed in the Bible.

If I am in error here, please correct me.

But most "Christian" churches have already given up on 2 of 3, namely, lifelong and procreative. They OK divorce/remarriage and they OK anti-procreative acts, e.g. contracepted sex.

So most "Christian" churches have already re-defined marriage into a form contrary to what God has designed and defined.

Gays are just making it 3-out-of-3.

61 posted on 08/10/2012 10:44:32 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (And vice versa.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
So most "Christian" churches have already re-defined marriage into a form contrary to what God has designed and defined.

All because Henry XIII wanted a divorce and the Pope wouldn't grant it, so he started his own church. It's slid downhill from there.

81 posted on 08/14/2012 3:25:53 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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