Maggie Gallagher has a helpful article at The Public Discourse about the aims of the gay rights movement. She warns about the conflict that will come to those stand for traditional marriage:
Advocates of gay marriage are not slow to use any lever of power, including government, to impose their new morality on America. The primary goal of the existing gay marriage movement is to use cultural, social, economic, and political power to create a new norm: marriage equality. The governing idea behind “marriage equality” is this: there is no difference between same-sex and opposite-sex unions. If you see a difference, there is something wrong with you. “You’re a hater, you’re a bigot, and you need to be fired!” Watch out.
In other words, if you support traditional marriage, the activists are not simply going to live and let live. They are not going to let up until standing for marriage is seen to be the moral equivalent of defending slavery.
10 Comments
Jerry Corbaley
Aloha Dr. Burk,
“If” the culture redefines marriage in this way, it will become the “tradition”.
Christian marriage is distinctive and immune from what the world wants to make of it.
While I do fear for my grandchildren growing up in a land that has a godless definition of marriage; I already fear for my grandchildren growing up in a land that already has a godless definition of marriage
Vote Biblically? Yes.
Count on the culture to ever get it right? No.
William Dicks
A bigot is a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
Wouldn’t you say that is exactly what the gay activists are? It is like the pot calling the kettle black!
Gabe
William,
Then wouldn’t that definition apply to gay marriagie supporters and traditional marriage supporters?
Ken Nichols
Gabe, it can apply to each, but not necessarily so. A dissenter is not necessarily a bigot.
Dissenters don’t necessarily want people who disagree with them to be harmed, to be ridiculed, to lose their jobs, to be shunned. Those to whom the term Bigots would apply do.
yankeegospelgirl
Duh.
Barry Applewhite
To combat the tactic of calling us haters and bigots, the most important step is that we not be haters. We can speak strongly in upholding the position that marriage is only about a man marrying a woman without raising our voices in a hateful way. Such restraint will go a long way toward undercutting the arguments used against us.
Jesus told us to love our enemies (Matt. 5:44), and we must raise the banner of God and that of biblical marriage without hate.
-Barry
William Dicks
Like the article above says, government did not create marriage, and neither can government redefine marriage.
The fact is that everybody has the right to get married, as long as it is one man and one woman, not under a certain age, not with more than one of the opposite sex, or with animals, etc.
Gabe
William,
But God has the right to redefine marriage I suppose. Afterall, he told David he would have blessed him with many other wives if he would’ve been obedient instead of committing adultery and having Urijah killed?. At what point did God redefine marriage to mean a monogamous relationship?
Gabe
Ken,
I definitely agree with what you said
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