Scripture does not condemn Gay Marriage
It condemns calling two men married
“Do you still beat your wife?” Everyone knows that one, right? A question with certain premises buried inside it that cannot be answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ and accurately. A premise that perverts the truth, but is not presented for response, but as an assumption.
So it is with the modern question “Do you support Gay Marriage?” The proposed answer, for those who are seen as ‘social conservatives’, is ‘No’. Perhaps some extreme form of ‘no’.
But the problem with ‘no’ is that it ignores the premise of the question. The kind and gentle husband who responds, ‘no’, to the question about beating his wife may find himself next asked, ‘When did you stop?” and realise, to his horror, that he has all but admitted that there is a time when he did beat his wife.
Similarly with the question about ‘gay marriage’, the Christian should realise, to their horror, that the question itself assumes, and calls upon them to assume, that there is such a thing as ‘gay marriage’. That there are married men, married to each other, running around and you are being asked how you feel about them, or about their relationship.
At the Beginning
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:4-6
The first thing that this question denies is creation. When it says ‘allowed to marry’ the implication is that there is this thing out there, called ‘marriage’, and the person being asked the question is being asked if they will ‘allow’ one class of people to participate in that thing. Can they go to Disneyland, or Buckees? (Did you know that semi’s can’t go to Buckees?)
But that is not what is at issue. There is a thing out there, called ‘marriage’, but no one is keeping ‘gay’ people away from it. Because what two men do is not marriage, and cannot be marriage. Marriage involves a man and a woman… what two men do isn’t marriage. It can’t be marriage. So we can’t ‘allow’ them to marry… the thing cannot be done.
Two men can go to Disneyland. They can go to Buckees. But they cannot marry (each other). The thing cannot be done. God created marriage, and defined it, and re-creates it every time a man and a woman come together. But not when two men do. That, God does not join together.
Justifying Perversion
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 1:26-27
The second thing that this question does is to justify perversion. The question is built upon the idea that what two men do is good, right, and even loving. But it is not. It is, to coin a phrase, a ‘vile affection’.
To call two men married is to enshrine a vile affection, a perversion, in the centre of a relationship, and give it societies stamp of approval. That which ought to be condemned, is instead praised.
Conclusion
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans 11:4
This question, then, is a trap, and one that Christians must avoid at all costs. We do not ‘fail to support gay marriage’… we understand that there is no such thing. We understand, and must proclaim, that God Himself created marriage, that He created it as a sexual relationship between a man and a woman, and no government, no opinion poll, no Supreme Court opinion can change that.
We understand that sexual activity between two men is not ‘love’. It is, in fact, the opposite. And to pretend otherwise, to hide our light under a bushel, to fail to be salt and light… is to condemn both those who practice this vile affection, and the society they live in.
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