"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Jude 7
One of the things that is often overlooked in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, is that everyone there was not practicing homosexuality. Since God gives us Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of how the world will end, then dont think for a moment that God is waiting for everybody to be a homosexual in order for the world to end. The thing that brought the fate of Sodom was not that everbody was doing it, but it was the permissive, and welcoming attitude by society that brought things to their end.
Many arguments are used today to justify such behavior, None of them hold up.
Argument # 1 We love each other.
The county office doesn't issue marriage liscence because you love each other, but because they see the need to hold men and women who have decided to unite, accountable.. Why? They bring children in the world. People get married all over the world for reasons that have nothing to do with love. Try arranged marriages, they happen to be most successful in the parts of the world where this happens.
Argument # 2 This is my rights, we are all equal
This is true, we are all equal. Everyone has the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. No one is deprived of this. "But I like the same sex" some may say. The fact that you like something else doesnt make you unequal in society.
Everyone has the right to vote, even if they dont vote. Even if they dont like the candidates.
Argument #3 Two Moms can raise a family
If everyone did this, families, communities, yes-even nations would cease to exist. If a civil society legitimizes such a thing, they would be authorizing their own extinction, or at least the potential. It would also state that fathers are obsolete when two women are sanctioned, and vice versa. Civil society by its own laws would be sanctioning the breakdown of the home. Children would suffer, and civil disorder and unrest would result. A man and a woman united is the building block of civilization.
Argument #4 I was born this way
No baby is born with sexual desire. However we are born with certain organs which functions for the purpose that in adulthood, on would join the opposite sex. Feelings and emotions are developed through life, all of which are not good, and examples bear out the fact that these can change. Organs do not change.
Argument # 5 Same Sex couples are family too
Families are based on geneological history. The family tree. Basketball teams love each other. They hug, bump chests, high five, but they are not a family. Geneology identifies who we are as a family. Medical history is factored into when treating disease, as well as geneology. In order for their to be a family tree, there has to be a man and a woman united, and to get an accurate account, they must be married.
In the month of June 2008, California passed a law allowing same sex unions.
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