A Christian couple in Australian has
pledged to divorce if gay and lesbian couples are allowed to marry.
Sarah and Nick Jensen said in a
lengthy public letter that they would divorce if lawmakers
approve a proposed bill that would allow gay couples to marry in
Australia.
Nick Jensen, director of the Lachlan
Macquarle Institute, which fosters “a greater appreciation of the
relevance of a Christian worldview in public policy,” said that his
high school sweetheart is the only woman he has ever loved, but that
the law's change would force them to seek a divorce after 10 years of
marriage.
“As Christians, we believe marriage
is not a human invention,” Jensen
said in the letter.
“Our view is that marriage is a
fundamental order of creation. Part of God's intimate story for
human history. Marriage is the union of a man and a woman before a
community in the sight of God. And the marriage of any couple is
important to God regardless of whether that couple recognizes God's
involvement or authority in it.”
“My wife and I, as a matter of
conscience, refuse to recognize the government's regulation of
marriage if its definition includes the solemnization of same-sex
couples.”
Jensen added the he will remain with
his wife, married in God's view.
And we should care, why?
2 comments:
even in Biblical times marriage was just a civil contract, like buying a goat or a sheep. It wasn't until the 11th and 12th centuries that the Church hijacked it and made it a `religious` event. It was even unsure about it itself, as marriage involved sex, and, as we all know, sex is bad. It probably stayed with it as it offered a great new source of money, but it has been punished for it ever since. From Henry VIII's split with Katharine of Aragon and thus England's split with Rome, to the problem of divorce, to today's argy-bargy over same-sex marriage
so when gay couples agitate for `marriage` rather than civil union they are simply (like this flakey pair) buying into a product
invented by the Church in the Middle Ages
No centurion, they are not.
Gay couples want marriage equality for the legal benefits that are not bestowed upon people who get civil unions. (at least here in the States)
It really irks my ass when other gay men try to shame gay couples and accuse them of being heteronormative when all they want is the same legal protections heterosexual couples have.
Most gay couples just get their license, have a gathering of friends and family to celebrate the event without any involvement or observance of any type of religious bullshit.
It's fine if you don't want that, but it doesn't make your decision superior to those who do want their joint properties and estates protected.
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