Posted on 05/13/2012 9:23:05 PM PDT by Sporke
My son had a friend whose apartment was robbed within minutes after he left to go on vacation.
The guy was an avid facebooker, with hundreds of “friends” who were going to watch his place AND who knew he was leaving and the exact time of his flight.
My son and his friends stopped their accounts and have not used facebook since.
I just say, “Why is the government involved in marriage at all?”
They have nothing to say.
I have a covenant marriage.
For decades they screamed “Get the government out of our bedrooms” ... now they demand the government get back into their bedrooms.
Exactly!!!!!
Ancient Greece was rife with homosexuality. But the Greeks apparently never considered homosexual marriage, evidently possessing the insight that it would wreck their whole society.
One point you ought to make is that there has never been a “right” to marry.
Historically, “marriage” has been an obligation or commitment undertaken by a couple, (ideally) before engaging in activity that might reasonably be expected to result in offspring, to maximize the likelihood that said offspring survive to adulthood.
In furtherance of that maximization principle, there were even restrictions placed on “mixed sex” marriage - you couldn’t marry a close relative, you couldn’t marry someone with a “social disease”, you couldn’t marry someone who was already married.
Since a homosexual couple cannot produce children, there is no reason for them to marry.
I understand that feeling, especially if they are exposed to the biased rhetoric in modern sitcoms. But if I had a child who was falling away from God's Word, I would consider it far more loving to clarify their duty to God than to applaud with an insincere smile and, "whatever makes you happy". I am disgusted with parents who bow to political correctness over being right with God - it doesn't get more hateful than leading a child astray. God does not hate gay people, but He has made it perfectly clear how He feels about giving in to inappropriate sexual desires (whether gay, adulterous, or premarital).
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