Marriage On the Rocks!
Lately I’ve heard many different arguments for the “Rights of Homosexuals”. Repeatedly we are being bombarded with a statement of deception that the “Civil Rights” of Gay People across America are being violated. So for a moment let’s really open our ears and tackle some of the tough realities of the Homosexual lifestyle and dispel any misconceptions of what we are really fighting for and against!
Time and time again, interview after interview it is being stated by Homosexual individuals that they should be allowed to “be what they want to be”. Let them be who they want to be. Now think about this for a second, this is an individual who has made a choice to be something other than what and who they really are. There are many comparisons being made to the fight that Black Americans went through during the Civil Rights era and even women with the right to vote. How can it be compared to something that was discriminated against that was a pre determined or destined state? In other words did I somehow choose in my mother’s womb whether or not I wanted to be Black or White, Male or Female, Disabled or Healthy? That’s no different than saying that a person had no choice in whether or not they were going to live a Gay lifestyle. We are not talking about a predisposed condition or state of being; we are talking about a conscious decision to live a particular lifestyle.
In the civil rights era Black Americans were not allowed to attend public functions, attend the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, ride busses or sit where they wanted on the bus, sometimes there was no option to even take a seat at all despite there being empty seats on that bus. Am I somehow now supposed to believe that the fight that Gay people are fighting is to be compared to such blatant acts and violations of one’s Civil Rights? Are you serious? Let’s be real here, we all work with someone who is Gay, we dine at the same restaurants, we attend the same movies at the same time, we go to school with them, we shop together in the same stores, we use the same restrooms and yes we even attend the same churches. Whether we know it or not there are many Gay people “out and in the closet” in our everyday lives and until now I have never seen an uproar about anything that they have moved forward in doing with such resistance. So why now? What now has Americans across the country taking a stand and by overwhelming majority saying “No More”? Not in my state, not in my county, not in my city, not in my neighborhood and not in my home?
I recently had the task of renewing and selecting my benefits here at work. Many of the benefits included Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance and many other options. Each and every option for each benefit, I was given the option to not only select benefits for myself the employee of this company of which I work but to add an eligible dependant (child) and/or spouse (husband/wife) & “Same Sex Domestic Partner”!! Look there! Same Sex Domestic Partner! So in other words there is a recognition of “same sex partnerships” and that recognition can be tied to benefits for either party in the relationship! Last time I looked at a job application under the “non discrimination clause” it clearly states that an employer can not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, gender, age, disability and yes “sexual orientation”!! The same is true on an application for credit, application for a loan or housing rental, college applications, ect. So where are the rights being violated people? What about marriage? What about marriage! What is marriage by definition?
“a union between one man and one woman as husband and wife is a monogamous heterosexual marriage”
Marriage has always been between Man and Woman. Dare we ask what was God’s intent when he wrote the passages of the Bible that address this very issue? Did God intend for Men to be with Men and Women to be married and sexually intimate with Women? Absolutely NOT!! If so, why did he not make it possible for two women to create a life together (pro create)? Life is created when the sperm of the man is joined with the egg of the woman, life is not possible without one or the other being present! Not possible, no matter how hard you try you can not create life between two men and two women. So was the intent of Marriage to form a family? There are many arguments on what constitutes a “family” and we really could go one and on about that one……
Here is the heart of the matter, what they are all up in arms about is the denial of the Sacrament of Marriage. Many people living a gay lifestyle also practice in religions where the belief is not in God as our Creator and Father and his son Jesus as our Savior. When asked I have had a lot of them tell me that they believe in a “Higher Power” and practice religions such as Buddism and study the Kabala so my question is, if you do not believe in God and or my Christian values why do you need the sacrament of marriage or a “Church” to bless your union? They don’t believe the living word of God but yet they insist upon being “married” which is a sacrament under God? I’m still trying to see where the Civil Rights are being violated…………
I recently had a Gay person ask me what if they tried to enact a law that stated that Christians could not be legally be married in our country. The first thing is that this country was founded on the belief in Christianity that’s why we have God in the Pledge of Allegiance, “In God We Trust” on our American currency, our presidents swear into office by the Bible as well as other congressional officers and it is in acted in our judicial system to this very day, that when giving testimony you are “swearing” before God and asked you place your hand on the Bible. OK maybe not place your hand on the Bible (physically) so much anymore but you still have to “swear” an oath before the court and God as your ultimate judgment!! I can not see a time when we would ever take that question seriously not just as Christians but as a country because the very belief that this country and our laws were founded, specifically speaks against Gay marriage. And it’s not up for “interpretation”, it’s very clear “man shall not lay with another man, and a woman shall not lay with another woman”.
Bottom line is that for centuries marriage has always existed between one man and one woman throughout various cultures, religions and societies. I can not see reason to change that “legally” for less than 2% of the world’s population which already has all of the same civil and fundamental rights as the rest of the us.
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