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Changing the
Definition of Marriage is Like Changing the Course of the Sun
In
May 2005, rumors began to circulate about an affair between celebrities
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. At that time, Pitt was married,
and the rumor angered Jolie who issued the following statement:
“To be intimate with a married man, when my own father [actor
Jon Voight] cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive.
I could not, could not, look at myself in the morning if I did
that.” Evidently, arrangements were later made so that the
actress could make her morning mirror appearance. Brad Pitt divorced
his wife Jennifer Aniston, and he and Angelina Jolie have since
had a baby together. However, they have not yet married each other,
and perhaps will not do so any time soon. Pitt made the following
statement: “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when
everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally
able.” The purpose of this “morally different”
statement was, of course, to assert a promotion for same sex marriage.
Shortly after the opinion was issued, however, the story ran in
a Washington DC tabloid under the title, “Polygamist Sects
Say, “Thanks”.” It was bad enough that the two
Hollywood figures would have such absurd viewpoints endorsing
same sex marriage, but it is even worse that such ideas lend themselves
to almost anything else, including polygamy! Such is a profound
example of the absurd distortion of those who believe in anything
but traditional marriage!
Does our country now really subscribe to the “new standards”
that many in Hollywood are embracing? Have we forever established
a new definition for marriage which includes anyone who simply
claims to “love” anyone else, regardless of sex? The
answer to this question, so far, thankfully, is NO. The country
on the whole has not yet bought in to same sex marriages. Several
battles have been recently lost by same sex marriage promoters.
Congress recently passed the “Defense of Marriage Act”
(DOMA) which gives each state the right to decide whether or not
it will recognize any marriage that is so defined in another state.
This past Tuesday the US Supreme Court refused to take up a legal
challenge against the act. Therefore DOMA stands, and each state
will continue to maintain its own right to define marriage. In
the State of California, a Court of Appeals overturned a lower
court decision which challenged a ban against recognizing same
sex marriage. In its decision, the Court of Appeals stated “In
the final analysis, the court is not in the business of defining
marriage. ... The [same-sex couples] in these appeals are asking
the court to recognize a new right. Courts simply do not have
the authority to create new rights, especially when doing so involves
changing the definition of so fundamental an institution of marriage.
... The court's role is not to define social policy. ... [It]
is beyond the judiciary's realm of authority to redefine a statute
or to confer a new right where none previously existed.”
The bottom line: same sex marriage advocates have a long way to
go before they get what they want. However, that is not to say
they will not one day get it.
Today, America is on the brink of a major moral war regarding
marriage. Such a war would not have been possible 200 years ago
or even 100 years ago, because all Americans would have conceded
that the issue of homosexual marriage was absurdly wrong and sinful,
a crime against the very nature of humanity. Such a standard of
morality is what has been agreed upon in the western culture for
5000 years. However, for strange reasons beyond the scope of our
discussion, modern morality has changed so that many 21st century
Americans don’t comprehend such a standard of traditional
morality. There are activists in our society who have become “moral
morons” whose whole frame of moral reference has become so
outrageously distorted and twisted that they think that it is
“wrong” not to allow a man to marry another man, or
a woman to marry another woman. As we have said before (and as
demonstrated in the example above), such depraved reasoning won’t
stop with that. If we allow same sex marriages, it will be a matter
of time before a man will sue for the right to claim 6 wives,
and then some woman will claim the right to 3 husbands! Finally,
we will see some brainless reprobate who will demand the right
to be married to an animal.
Trying to change what marriage actually is, is like trying to
change the course of the sun. You might attach a legal document
to two men and call it “marriage,” but it is no more
a true and real marriage than the peanut butter and jelly in my
sandwich. You cannot change marriage, any more than you can change
the color of the sky or change the rotation of the earth. However,
that does not mean that some moral ignoramus won’t make things
complicated, stupid, and wicked within the framework of law. In
a few weeks, we will need to vote in the state of Tennessee to
define marriage as only recognizable between one man and one woman.
I urge you to vote “YES” on that referendum. If you
don’t, one of these days, some of your hard earned tax money
may go to pay health benefits for somebody’s legal wedded
spouse which happens to be a poodle. “Wherefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” (Romans
1:24-25).
James Sanders
Pastor,
sandersjc@yahoo.com
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