So here we are on the eve of an historic day. While we had for a time illegal marriages between gays and lesbians a while back in San Francisco, the result of a renegade mayor breaking the law to further his personal view of 'rights', we now are faced with "legal" marriages performed in Massachusetts between people of the same sex.
What will the response be? How will America react? I suspect with the usual apathy, if not outright support.
I have heard people claim that this will STRENGTHEN marriage, as if homosexuals remain in relationships longer than do heterosexuals. Of course the statistics on that put such statements to a lie, i.e. such statements are off by a factor of 10.
I've heard people call me and others who argue that this event signals a serious downturn in societal development "doomsayers" and "idiots". We'll see. Yes, I am a doomsayer... whether I'm an idiot remains to be seen - but this is a SERIOUS tear in the fabric of society.
I'm also concerned about Christians who seem to think that people distinguished only by their perverted lifestyle choices should have the right to government benefits that currently married couples alone receive. That is, I find myself incensed at those who profess Christ but claim that somehow gays and lesbians deserve all the civil benefits of marriage, if they decide that 'marriage' as it were was not something they have a right to. This is even worse, in my mind. So we are going to now argue that our government should pay people (in essence, that is what it is) to carry on in relationships that are essentially defined by the extent to which they fly in the face of nature and of God's created order? So because a man decides he wants to live with another man and pretend that they are 'normal' in their desire to have sexually perverse relations with one another (ah, committed till death do us part, how nice!) they deserve to get the tax breaks and HEALTH CARE benefits that currently only married couples (for the most part - of course heterosexual fornicators often get the same benefits) receive? God help a company that refuses to extend to a gay man his lover's health benefits.
This country (have I said it before? Of course... but it's getting worse) is headed for the toilet. I guess the church has lost our intestinal fortitude - the will to speak out when things are so obviously wrong. God help us.