PRECISELY! I for one refuse to let the sacrament of marriage be so defiled. If it is not honored and revered as it should be, then take it out of the hands of Government altogether. Reserve it for the church, who will treat it as the gift from God that it is.
Leaving marriage in the hands of the Government is like leaving your sermons in the hands of the Government.
They can have a civil union with their godless Government; it is NOT marriage, however. And since the Government refuses to accept the Biblical foundations of marriage, then it should have no say in deciding if the joining of two people is, in fact, a marriage.
If it cannot recognize what a marriage is, then how can it have power to recognize a marriage?
Thank you for your eloquent post!
The bad news is the state has the power to punish if you don’t buy into their claim that “gay marriage’ is possible. The good news is that they really can’t change the true definition of marriage, just like passing a law that the moon is made of cheese doesn’t make it so. The other good news is that some faiths aren’t ever going to accept “gay marriage”, no matter the punishment. It’s just a shame that the state has that power in the first place, in my opinion.
The sooner folks start looking to their faiths to define marriage instead of the ever devolving versions of the statists and homosexualists, the better off the institution will be, in my opinion.
That said, the state is never going to give up the institution, it provides too much control of the culture. Like I said, they love that many have been conditioned to think that marriage is whatever the state says it is because marriage comes from the state, in little pieces of paper.
I voted for a marriage amendment in my state, and would do so again, but I don’t think it is going to matter eventually.
Freegards