Same sex marriage? Impossible!

TThe brew-ha-ha over the Miss USA pageant contestant possibly losing the crown and money over her response to a question about "gay marriage" provoked me to post.

First of all, I have a problem with professing Christian girls parading their nearly naked bodies in a worldly exhibition that triumphs the carnal sexual lusts and superficial "virtues" of an evil society. It's getting harder and harder to tell Christians apart from the unregenerate walking dead who are enslaved to sin and Satan. This ought not to be! If this is not patently obvious to any professing Christian, they should seriously examine themselves to see whether they be in the faith.

1John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

That being said, the question was loaded and far beyond the scope of a beauty pageant. I have far too little knowledge of the law of this land to speak intelligently on whether states should have the right to decide on same sex marriage or whether a federal law protecting homosexual marriages would be constitutional. As far as I know, either thing may be a perfectly legitimate course of action as concerns our nation's constitution. It seems to me that our founder's had in mind a system of government ruled by consensus view, with some individual rights written in to protect minority groups.

There may be coming a day (and probably sooner than later) when the majority view in the United States is that gays have the right to marry. I'm sure that our founders would never have envisioned such a thing, but as they have written our nation's constitution with a purpose of protecting the people from the tyranny of state churches, there is no clause that such matters must be settled biblically.

Those Christians who protest that biblical language was used in our founding documents, that the founders were largely Christians etc. seem to largely ignore this point. The founders did not omit the bible as a legal guide in the constitution out of ignorance; they knew that such language would require that the government have an agency to interpret the bible on legal matters and that requires a state church.

But the point I want to make is this; it makes no difference whether states or the federal government or the world government or the popular view says gays can marry- it is impossible for two people of the same sex to get married. Because marriage is not a human institution but divine. It was instituted by God and God decides the parameters of marriage. And those parameters are clearly defined in the scriptures. God does not recognize same sex unions as marriage but rather an abomination and grievous sin. It is rebellion and hatred for God to despise his parameters concerning marriage and sexual relationships.

Moreover, marriage is a covenant pact that is witnessed by God and joined by God. A piece of paper or a state or federal bureaucrat or a judge or liberal "minister" does not join people in marriage, only God does or can.

And what God hath not joined, let no man bind together. There will never be any two people of the same sex married. No matter what they believe or our culture stipulates. Same sex marriage is impossible.