I really don’t get this. What we’re talking about is who can and cannot purchase caesars cohabitation license. Why would we care? So long as churches and individuals are not forced to conduct ceremonies, caesar can define a legal cohabitation arrangement as involving 3 men, one transgendered dwarf, and a yak.
I really don’t get this.
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Too bad. Because you don’t get it and you don’t care, you WILL see churches and individuals forced to conduct ceremonies with “3 men, one transgendered dwarf, and a yak.”
I have to apologize for this post. A FReeper whom I respect pointed out on another thread that this post makes it look like I favor caesars ever evolving view of state “marriage.” Nothing could be further from the truth. I picked my words carefully, but apparently not carefully enough. What we’re talking about here is not marriage as defined by God and his Christian churches, but licensed cohabitation as defined by caesar. Caesar can call it “marriage” or “divine matrimony” or whatever he wants. It doesn’t make it so. And it doesn’t change the underlying truth: this so called “marriage” is a construct of, by, and for caesar. Not of God.
I believe that Christians make a mistake in not actively separating what is meant by the sacrament of marriage from the tax and cohabitation license issued by caesar. Further, we make a big mistake by allowing ourselves to get drawn into caesars intrigues and games. In the end caesar is going to do what caesar wants to do, and isn’t going to care in the least what Christians think about it.