The Truth About Marriage

Last week I watched part of a Larry King interview with two gays, the President of a Southern Baptist Seminary, and some woman I had never heard of. The discussion was about same gender marriage which it goes without saying the intelligent but one track minded Mohler expressed his biblical view quite articulately. I had once accidently fallen asleep with my radio on and awoke to a Mohler broadcast. In the gentle irritation of waking, I lay there and listened to the program. Mohler said gay 52 times in 13 different contexts on that show. This is obviously a subject he has given lengthly consideration.

I recently came across this: James Dobson, Top Ten List Against Gay Marriage (with my criticisms right up in there with them

1.The legalization of homosexual marriage will quickly destroy the traditional family, confusing young people about sexual identity, lifelong commitments, emotional bonding, sexual purity and the role of children.  Legalization will also lead to polygamy, bestiality and other alternatives to man-woman unions.

What kind of pervert's mind goes from traditional marriage to bestiality in such a short step? Sexual identity is innate.

2. Children will suffer if they are not raised by loving and committed  mothers and fathers.

No kidding. Tell that to the divorced Christians.

3. Public schools in every state will embrace homosexuality and will be required to teach this perversion as the moral equivalent of traditional marriage.

Why do you expect the government funded educational system to teach your chldren ANY morals? Isn't this your job as a parent?

4. Adoption laws will be instantly obsolete, preventing courts from favoring normal married couples over gay couples.

Ask any black couple trying to adopt how quickly this preference will change.

5. Foster-care programs will be impacted dramatically.  Foster care parents will be required to undergo 'sensitivity training' to rid themselves of bias in favor of heterosexuality, and will have to affirm homosexuality in children and teens.  Morality training will be forbidden.

The foster care system is broken and sensitivity training is one of many things that's needed. Part of America's problem is that there is a "right to sex" for children. If you didn't let them feed on garbage at such a young age, gender and sexual issues could be dealt with when a child is mature enough to handle it.

6. The health care system will stagger and perhaps collapse, as millions of new dependents become eligible for coverage.

So the health care system is really broke but if you discriminate, it will manage to hold on a little longer. Great thinking.

7. Social Security will be severely stressed, with millions of new eligible dependents.

Do we read this to mean that it is current and acceptable to withold benefits based on discriminatory laws?

8. Religious freedom will be jeopardized because writings and speech that criticize homosexuality will effectively become criminalized.  Homophobia would become a crime, punishable by prison or other severe penalties.

Turn about is fair play. There is no such thing as religious freedom anyway. It is a made up "right" popular with Nationalist Christians.

9. Other nations will follow our lead in the march toward homosexual marriage just as they did with pornography.

United States is My Shepherd. Should have rethought #9, James.

10. The Gospel of Jesus will be severely curtailed.

This happens already due to the greed, avarice, licentiousness and ostentatiousness of popular christianity. Fill in your own TV evangelists name here.

I searched for where, in this world of statistics and research, one would find the REASON gay marriage would be harmful to straight marriage.  I failed.  But what I did find among all of these United States Census Bureau stats and research are many reasons why Dobson and his kind are running scared.  Likely, gay marriages will prove to more stable.


The current situation plays out thus:

Only 51 percent of households in this country include a mother, father and one or more children.

Almost half of all heterosexual marriages will end in divorce.

After Nevada (which doesn't count), Arkansas has the highest divorce rate in the country.  Massachusetts has the lowest.

Traditional families continue to fall apart at an increasing rate as a result of the growing adoption of no-fault divorce laws.

The leading reasons why heterosexual marriages fail:  poor communication, money problems, bad sex, infidelity, change in personal priorities, substance abuse and spousal or child abuse.


And, by far my two favorite stats:

Red states have a divorce rate 27% higher than blue states (no wonder they  feel so threatened.)

The higher level of education a woman achieves, the more likely her marriage will stay intact. (Likely another reason the Professional Christians feel so threatened.)


Faced with all of this information, it really is mind-boggling to consider that gay men and women are seen by so many Americans as the enemy. One can thank the Bush election campaign for this. Notice how quickly he abandoned that ammendment as soon as the Professioanl Christians and their blind pawns elected him. They look like fools in so many ways now.

I do not support an ammendment banning same gender marriage. I do not support Same gender marriage. I think this is a social issue and is not the business of the church other than for the Church to make it's own decisions about it. Once again I remind everyone that USA is NOT the Kingdom of Christ. See previous post.