The problem began when we whored out the practice of marriage to the government, by allowing ‘marriage’ to be applied to those who were wed at government offices. Allowing people to get ‘married’ outside of a religious ceremony is ludicrous when you think about it. Marriage is a religious institution. It is a ritual. It’s not about ‘sign form B and now you get a tax break’. That’s a ‘union of financial interest’, or some other kind of bond. It’s not a marriage. By accepting the government’s right to ‘marry’ people, we have opened up the door to this, because now the government has the ability to ‘marry’ whoever it likes.
If it gets to the point where to government cracks down on churches that do not marry homosexuals, then it will be time to take up arms, because the freedom of religion will have been grossly violated. I agree that this is the direction the UK is heading in. A sad day for the Western way of life for sure. If I was one of these church leaders, I’d shut down and move to the US, join the fight here.
Many states in the USA adopted a ‘Domestic Partnership’ or ‘Civil Union’ licensing option. Homosexuals were not allowed a marriage license but could have a civil union license. Employers were later required by law to extend the same benefits afforded married couples to homosexual partners.
Homosexuals challenged in court the law that banned them from obtaining a marriage license or certificate. They lost in court because it was proven they were not harmed as the civil union procedure and laws pertaining to civil unions afforded them equal benefits.
So homosexuals with civil union certificates had all the protections and benefits of couples with marriage certificates. The only difference was ‘civil union’ versus ‘marriage’.
Why then do they persist in having the word ‘marriage’ applied to them?
Answer: they want to control/destroy the Church and its teachings against homosexuality. Marriage is indeed a religious ritual, and they want that ritual under their control.
Read about the Boy Scouts of America. The same war is going on there. The parents of the scouts are winning so far with strong arguments about leaving young boys in the care of homosexual molesters. Case histories show many sordid sexual cases of young boys abused by homosexual scout leaders.
The Catholic Church has also been riddled by Homosexual molester priests and other official clergy, no doubt by the difficulty in attracting hetersexual men to a life of celibacy as a Catholic priest. The Orthodox Church may have a better model in allowing their priests to marry but disallowing the same to their monks and bishops.
Homosexuals seek out organizations that are gender specific, they infiltrate these organzations and attain positions of authority. They also seek influence in large corporations and then drive a political agenda for so called ‘gay rights’.