USA To Use Foreign Aid To Promote Gay Rights

Titus2woman · #1 12-13-2011, 05:06 AM

According to the gay people I know, they do not want a domestic partnership, or a legal contract with power of attorney, or property rights. They want to get married. To publicly acknowledge their love for one another as well as their legal commitment and to have others acknowledge it as well. Some want a ceremony with all the bells and whistles and some a trip to the JP but they all want the right to do what a marriage is to them.

I saw a National Geographic special the other day. Some lost tribe of the Amazon... the narrator calmly stated '... he has two wives, they have had 12 children but only 3 are alive today'... the point was that there is a very high child mortality rate. No judgement was passed on the 'two wives' issue, whether or not they got married in a church or had a license issued by the state. These were simply his wives because by their own customs they met that criteria.

I think we can look at gay marriage the same way. While it does not meet the criteria of 'marriage' by our Christian standards it meets the standards of the people it involves and that really is not for us to question.

Our mission is to reach the lost with the Good News of Jesus Christ... and to trust that He'll fix the rest just as He did for us. I find no commandment to 'Go ye forth to all the Nations and legislate by what moral code they will live.'

Hoovie · #2 12-13-2011, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Titus2woman

According to the gay people I know, they do not want a domestic partnership, or a legal contract with power of attorney, or property rights. They want to get married. To publicly acknowledge their love for one another as well as their legal commitment and to have others acknowledge it as well. Some want a ceremony with all the bells and whistles and some a trip to the JP but they all want the right to do what a marriage is to them.

I saw a National Geographic special the other day. Some lost tribe of the Amazon... the narrator calmly stated '... he has two wives, they have had 12 children but only 3 are alive today'... the point was that there is a very high child mortality rate. No judgement was passed on the 'two wives' issue, whether or not they got married in a church or had a license issued by the state. These were simply his wives because by their own customs they met that criteria.

I think we can look at gay marriage the same way. While it does not meet the criteria of 'marriage' by our Christian standards it meets the standards of the people it involves and that really is not for us to question.

Our mission is to reach the lost with the Good News of Jesus Christ... and to trust that He'll fix the rest just as He did for us. I find no commandment to 'Go ye forth to all the Nations and legislate by what moral code they will live.'

That sounds nice... the problem is, they not only want marriage, they want recognition of the same by the church and Christians. And of course we are called to "legislate" morality in the church.

jfrog · #3 12-13-2011, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Titus2woman

According to the gay people I know, they do not want a domestic partnership, or a legal contract with power of attorney, or property rights. They want to get married. To publicly acknowledge their love for one another as well as their legal commitment and to have others acknowledge it as well. Some want a ceremony with all the bells and whistles and some a trip to the JP but they all want the right to do what a marriage is to them.

I saw a National Geographic special the other day. Some lost tribe of the Amazon... the narrator calmly stated '... he has two wives, they have had 12 children but only 3 are alive today'... the point was that there is a very high child mortality rate. No judgement was passed on the 'two wives' issue, whether or not they got married in a church or had a license issued by the state. These were simply his wives because by their own customs they met that criteria.

I think we can look at gay marriage the same way. While it does not meet the criteria of 'marriage' by our Christian standards it meets the standards of the people it involves and that really is not for us to question.

Our mission is to reach the lost with the Good News of Jesus Christ... and to trust that He'll fix the rest just as He did for us. I find no commandment to 'Go ye forth to all the Nations and legislate by what moral code they will live.'

If that's all they want then let them throw the biggest I love you ceremony in the world... Just at the end of the day it won't be legally called marriage. Here's the hangup for me, their want of having it legally called marriage is irrational. They can have marriage ceremonies. I'll even throw in a civil union type thing to protect them but why do they care if we legally call those unions marriage or not?