Sign this petition (the one that does God!) to defend marriage:<\/p>\n
\u2018We the undersigned believe that marriage was ordained by God to be the union of one man and one woman and that marriage between two persons of the same sex can not and should not be legalised by any earthly government.\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Lynne Featherstone, <\/strong>the Governments’ Equalities Minister, will publish her consultation today on how the Government wants to enact ‘Gay Marriage’.\u00a0 Ms Featherstone has said in her heart ‘there is no God’ (Psalm 14:1)<\/p>\n They are only consulting on how to do it, not whether to do it.\u00a0 Many people would say that smacks of arrogance.\u00a0 Here are some reasons why Her Majesty’s Government should keep their hands off marriage:<\/p>\n 1. Marriage was ordained by God as the first social institution.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 Therefore Her Majesty’s Government has no power to change the definition of marriage.\u00a0 No Church can change what God has ordained.\u00a0 And no State can\u00a0change what God has ordained.<\/p>\n 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:<\/p>\n Genesis 1:27\u00a0 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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:<\/p>\n 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?\u00a0 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.<\/p>\n 2. A marriage must be consummated.\u00a0 In consummation, the couple become physically, emotionally and spiritually ‘one flesh’.\u00a0 It does not matter if theirs was a registry office wedding, they still become physically, emotionally and spiritually ‘one flesh’.\u00a0 Becoming one flesh is what the Lord Jesus said is the foundation of marriage,\u00a0and it is something a pair of homosexuals can never do.\u00a0 In the immortal words of Dr David Reuben (author of ‘Everything you always wanted to know about sex’),\u00a0they are trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces.<\/p>\n Under Section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973\u00a0a 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.\u00a0 How will a pair of lesbians or two men achieve consummation with only half the necessary equipment?<\/p>\n 3. Marriage at all times and in all countries has been the union of a man and a woman.\u00a0 Even where polygamy was practised, it was exclusively heterosexual.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n But we repeat, marriage is not ‘tradition’, it is divine ordinance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sign this petition (the one that does God!) to defend marriage: \u2018We the undersigned believe that marriage was ordained by God to be the union of one man and one woman and that marriage between two persons of the same sex can not and should not be legalised by any earthly government.\u2019 Lynne Featherstone, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[234,15,18,9,340,43],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality-trans","tag-gay-marriage","tag-christian-voice","tag-gay-rights","tag-homosexuality","tag-sodomy","tag-stephen-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Stephen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/stephen\/"},"rttpg_comment":1,"rttpg_category":"Homosexuality & Trans<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Sign this petition (the one that does God!) to defend marriage: \u2018We the undersigned believe that marriage was ordained by God to be the union of one man and one woman and that marriage between two persons of the same sex can not and should not be legalised by any earthly government.\u2019 Lynne Featherstone, the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}