Sign this petition (the one that does God!) to defend marriage:
Lynne Featherstone, the Governments’ Equalities Minister, will publish her consultation today on how the Government wants to enact ‘Gay Marriage’. Ms Featherstone has said in her heart ‘there is no God’ (Psalm 14:1)
They are only consulting on how to do it, not whether to do it. Many people would say that smacks of arrogance. Here are some reasons why Her Majesty’s Government should keep their hands off marriage:
1. Marriage was ordained by God as the first social institution. All earthly government is subject to the power and empire of Christ our Redeemer (as Her Majesty the Queen was told at her coronation when being given the Orb set under the Cross). Therefore Her Majesty’s Government has no power to change the definition of marriage. No Church can change what God has ordained. And no State can change what God has ordained.
It does not matter whether it is church marriage, or civil marriage, it is between a man and a woman as explained in the opening chapters of the first book of the Bible:
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
At a time and in a society in which polygamy was not unknown, the Lord Jesus went right back to the creation ordinance to define marriage as it has been understood in those societies based on Christian laws right up to today:
Matt 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.
2. A marriage must be consummated. In consummation, the couple become physically, emotionally and spiritually ‘one flesh’. It does not matter if theirs was a registry office wedding, they still become physically, emotionally and spiritually ‘one flesh’. Becoming one flesh is what the Lord Jesus said is the foundation of marriage, and it is something a pair of homosexuals can never do. In the immortal words of Dr David Reuben (author of ‘Everything you always wanted to know about sex’), they are trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces.
Under Section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 a marriage is voidable if it has not been consummated due to the incapacity of either party to consummate it. Consummation requires sexual intercourse which is ordinary and complete. How will a pair of lesbians or two men achieve consummation with only half the necessary equipment?
3. Marriage at all times and in all countries has been the union of a man and a woman. Even where polygamy was practised, it was exclusively heterosexual. Even in societies, such as Ancient Greece, where homosexuality was regarded as acceptable, there was never a thought that two people of the same sex could be married. Nowhere in the world, until the last few years, has homosexual marriage even been considered.
Some people believe that human beings are evolving and that this generation is simply the smartest, wisest, most compassionate, most enlightened, cleverest bunch of people who ever walked the earth. We look around, and we see the violence, the sacrilege, the thieving, the contempt for civilised standards, the crassness, the sexualisation, the disregard for God and man, and we beg to disagree.
But we repeat, marriage is not ‘tradition’, it is divine ordinance.
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