What is "Marriage Equality"?

What is "Marriage Equality"?

If we were to compare other "equality" movements, particularly in the US, we would see that a typical trait of such a movement is that a group (typically having been denied opportunities or rights based on factors that are beyond their control) seeks to be guaranteed the same rights and opportunities as others.

"Racial Equality" (which somehow has become equated - no pun intended - with the current debate on marriage) was/is primarily about Black Americans enjoying the same rights and opportunities as White Americans (with the logical inclusion of all "minorities"). Even with modern technology, we cannot choose the race we are born - and Racial Equality seeks to bring about a view that we all are of the same race - the Human Race.

Equal Rights for Women - which was primarily centered on voting rights, though expanded into the workplace as well - brought about the right for women to vote (and then opening the doors for women to have equal opportunities in the workplace, and now in the military). Again - one doesn't choose the gender one is born - it's genetic.

Then we get to "Marriage Equality" - a movement to recognize and even promote "marriage" between people of the same gender. First, while some in the medical and psychological fields disagree, ultimately, homosexuality is a choice (just as other sinful behaviors are a choice). Homosexuality goes against not only God's Word, but for those who choose to reject God - it also flies in the face of "natural law". The movement to thus legitimize relationships that go against both God's Law, and natural law are not a matter of "equality", it is a matter of granting new and invented rights that have never existed before. Some may accuse me of using hyperbole when I say that if such a "right" is invented and solidified by the courts - then it is only a matter of time before people then claim a right to marry their pet, a close family member, or even to marry multiple partners at the same time (polygamy). Yet history is filled with similar "give an inch, take a yard" examples.

Others would say that it is none of my business what someone does in the privacy of their own bedroom. I won't argue with that, but unfortunately, what happens in the bedroom, doesn't stay in the bedroom. When a group demands that they be granted some new right, that will result in my pocket being picked to pay for it and/or to promote it and implement it - then it is an infringement in my enumerated rights. With the legalization of "Gay Marriage" (such a sad fraud of a title), that opens the doors to entitlements and other benefits at taxpayer, premium payer, and employer expense.

But from my own position - the above fleshly opposition to this "movement" takes a back seat to what is right in God's Eyes.

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Genesis 2:24

"Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." Matthew 19:4-6

"'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:31-33

The gender terms above for man and woman, both in the Greek and Hebrew languages are definite. They are not "gender neutral". They are unambiguous.

Further, same-sex attraction and sexual activity is addressed quite strongly throughout scripture in both the Old and New Testament.

Our governments today have no right or responsibility to recognize and legitimize what is morally, ethically, wrong - even which violates the laws of nature.

And before anyone accuses me of being selective on the sins I speak, post, and preach "against", please note - I am an "equal-opportunity sin-addresser". How many blatant sins are pressing themselves in the limelight today as the homosexual agenda?

All sin - needs to be repented of - and indeed, there is hope for those who have found themselves having given in to the sins of the flesh, including homosexuality. Forcing the government and society to recognize or legitimize your sin will not take away the fact that it is still sin. Some kind of official identity for your choice in behavior will not help you feel better about it, or alleviate the guilt. Indeed, it can only serve to solidify your opposition. And in God's eyes, it will not cover your sin - only the Blood of Jesus Christ can do that.