Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Banning Straight Marriage
Green Street Church: A United Methodist Congregation
(h/t here.)
The church's motto is, "Where the Kingdom of God is breaking through!"
That is unless, of course, a fallen and degenerate society's morals, and the LGBT community demands that the Kingdom of God be subordinated to man's whims and depravity and accept sexual immorality. In that case, slap a few more boards on the door lest the Kingdom of God breaks through...
"Public Statement on Marriage, Standing in Solidarity with LGBTQ Members"
(I am unsure what the "Q" is, and I don't really want to know. I am also unsure how a person who is unrepentant and actively practicing sexual immorality can be a "member" of a church that practices church discipline. That is, assuming this congregation does that, according to Biblical standards, as commanded in the Word. Anyone else seeing a theme here? Maybe they're using the Queen James version. Who knows?)
I've written on homosexuality before, at length, and with varying degrees of harshness. I'll never forget the day a friend came to me after a rally meant to oppose homosexuality and told me that his girlfriend might be pregnant.
The irony of that is still with me, over a decade later.
It is easier for a Christian to be uncompromisingly against homosexual immorality today (in a somewhat acceptable form of un-PC behavior) than it is to be uncompromisingly against heterosexual immorality. It's more "PC" to protest a company's support of gay marriage, but you really get sideways looks -in and out of the church- when you petition a supermarket to take the filth out of its checkout aisles.
Sexual immorality is sexual immorality, gay or straight. It is condemned in unequivocal language in both Testaments, Older and Newer.
Church/state/licensing issues aside, I find Green Street Church's de facto comparison of a perverted idea of marriage to legitimate marriage completely without Biblical justification. There is, Biblically speaking, no such thing as "homosexual marriage," even if the state decides to attempt to extend legitimacy and tax benefits to such people. I am unsure that there is any basis in Scripture whatsoever for the State's involvement in marriage at all. If you had listened to the 15 minutes of sermon I recommended in the last post, you'd realize that tax exemptions for married people have no Biblical basis, either (indeed, the entire US taxation system is unjust and unscriptural, from top to bottom). We could follow this rabbit hole down deeper, but I'll stop for now.
And no, Westboro Baptist folks, dead soldiers are not God's judgment for homosexuality. Homosexuality is not the offence, although it is an offense. These days, dead soldiers are the result of the prosecution of wars that our nation has no business whatsoever fighting.
Homosexuality is part of the judgment a people receives for forsaking God. Read Romans 1- then, for conviction and a mirror (for all of us), read Romans 2. Then keep on going all the way through the book.
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I am unsure that there is any basis in Scripture whatsoever for the State's involvement in marriage at all.
ReplyDeleteI think a case could be made for the State licensing civil marriage for the purposes of adjudicating inheritance and property rights -- assuming we had a State that respected property rights.
Apostate churches that champion unnatural affections are a dime a dozen. Where's the church that's standing up for open adultery, fornication, polygamy, and incest? And why, if homosexuality is legitimate, is polygamy -- accepted under the Old Covenant certainly -- not legitimate?
Strained and distorted thinking is hallmark of perversions. But, I think trivializing the traditional family is the point of all this foolishness anyway. It's easier for the collectivists to control broken families and single women with a covey fatherless children.
I think a case could be made for the State licensing civil marriage for the purposes of adjudicating inheritance and property rights -- assuming we had a State that respected property rights.
DeleteYou're probably right. When I think about things like this though, it's like peeling back an onion- just about every problem one sees is built on another set of problems and departures from God's Word. Every "fix" requires another few layers be peeled back, lest we build our "fixes" on the foundation of rotten onion layers.
In the end, this trivialization of the traditional family is the undoing of the nation, as nations are in one sense built on local communities, and local communities are built on families. Take out the family unit, and the rest is broken and susceptible to collectivist means and ends.
Sigh.