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Contributor: Cecil Maranville

Same-Sex Marriages—Why Religion Is Losing the Debate

Have you noticed anything missing in the arguments Christian-minded people are using to oppose same-sex marriages? We hear: "For thousands of years, marriage 'has meant' a union between a man and a woman." Who says so?

The answer is, God defined it. After completing His creation of mankind, God announced: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24). God also told the man and the woman, the husband and the wife, "Be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). So one of God's purposes of marriage is for the man and the woman to have a family.

Thousands of people in the United States are unashamedly challenging this legal definition of marriage. We're not speaking of the California proposition that defined marriage as between a man and woman; we aren't referring to the statutes on the books of nearly 40 states that order marriage to be between a man and a woman; we aren't referring to or joining the national debate over a constitutional amendment.

We're referring to God. His Word is law.

That's a reality that all too many Christian-minded people shy away from, and it's failing them and their leaders in the culture war raging in America. Christian religions have long taken a "politically correct" approach toward God's law, instead of a biblically correct one. Most have sought to "soften" the force of God's law. In the current debate, their wrong-headed theology makes their words hollow.

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