[Orthodoxy]

Originally Posted by Falla39

Why does it seem that when people, especially men, don't marry by the time some think they should be married, that they are suspected to be gay. And these men go to church, live a clean life, but they are looked on as suspect! (could they be gay???)

Good question.

Could it be that we have elevated marriage in the church to a place it should not hold? Do we undervalue singleness in our churches today, mimicking the culture at large? Do we think that romantic love is the greatest joy we could ever hope to have?

Jesus, as an abstinent single man his entire life, proved that wrong.