Friday, April 03, 2009

The ongoing fight to redefine deviancy

In news that surprises no one, Vermont voted Thursday to permit homosexual couples to get “married”. It appears that the Governor of Vermont is going to veto this legislation and it is unclear if there are enough votes to override that veto, but it is just the latest attempt to chip away at the institution of marriage by making it so amorphous a concept that it loses all meaning. If marriage is merely a social contract with innumerable permutations that can be entered into and gotten out of at will, open for definition and redefinition with each shift of the cultural wind it ceases to be the bedrock institution that has been the cornerstone of civilization for millennia. Part of the agenda of the homosexual lobby is to break down and eliminate all social and ethical restrictions on behavior so that their own behavior will be viewed as “normal” rather than deviant.

Be sure that this is all part of the concerted effort to override the intent and will of the majority of Americans who have no desire to see homosexual unions solemnized as “marriages”. By picking the most liberal of states to gain a foothold (Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut) the radical homosexual agenda now moves to the courts in an attempt to bypass the people in a judicial end-around. With the aid and blessing of the administration, barriers will be removed to allow homosexuals “married” in these states to then demand legal recognition of those “marriages” in states where gay marriage either doesn’t exist or has been explicitly denied by the people of that state. This will set the stage for a showdown between the states which will likely end up in the courts and you can see where that is going. Expect the challenges to occur in states covered by the most liberal Federal courts so that the plaintiffs seeking to force their definition of marriage on the people of a state who have rejected it will get the most friendly hearing.

In one way, this entire issue is a moot point. Marriage is defined by God very clearly and without exception in His Word. The laws of nations can be altered to apply the title of marriage to whatever sort of relationship that nation wants but fundamentally a “marriage” that is not a Biblical marriage is no more valid than saying that two goldfish are married. God has defined marriage and man has no right and no ability to redefine marriage as he sees fit. Still, when we see someone declaring holy that which is unholy, I think that as God’s people Christians have an obligation to speak up. “Gay marriage” will not destroy marriage. Marriage is ordained by God and sustained by Him. Yet gay marriage is bad for our society, bad for families, bad for children and damaging to the cultural fabric and as such we have an duty to speak out and present that progressively more unpopular view that marriage is the same today as it was thousands of years ago: the union of one man and one woman, united in marriage for life.

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