Marriage Assault

I was listening to Chuck Colson on Break Point radio this morning. (www.breakpoint.org). He was talking about the institute of marriage. It got me thinking about what has happened to marriage in my lifetime. There have been so many things, I am just going to point out a few important ones.

In the 1970's, lawyers came up with 'no-fault divorce'. You could go into the lawyer's office, fill out the right paperwork, and if you were in agreement, you could be divorced before you knew it. No hassle, cheaper, that's that. When a divorce was harder to get, and took quite a bit longer, husbands and wives had more incentive to stay together and try to work out their problems. That, by the way, is what we are supposed to do anyway. No marriage is going to be trouble-free. It's through compromise, hard work, and commitment, that marriage grows stronger, and lasts longer. We've made it too easy to leave when things aren't going just the way we wanted. God is surely not pleased.

Another little thing that really bothers me, is when women don't want to take their husband's last name, or they want to hyphenate their name with his. Where is the commitment? Where is the 'becoming one flesh' the Bible speaks of. When God spoke to Adam and Eve, in Genesis, He called them, simply, Adam. In His eyes, they had become 'one flesh', or two becoming one. Eve took on Adam's identity, without losing her own, of course. God never expected the woman to be a slave to her husband, but as a helper at his side, working together.

When divorce became easier, marriage lost something. It no longer seemed as important. Living together, without being married, seemed a lot more convenient. But, two people living together, without the benefit of a wedding ceremony, cannot truly say they are 'one flesh'. They are still two separate people, with two separate lives, bound only by the same mailing address. Again, where is the commitment? Where is the trust? Where is the incentive to stay together?

Fast forward to today. Now that men and women have weakened, and ruined, the whole meaning of true marriage, we have gone a step farther. And it's a dangerous step. Homosexuals now have fought for, and received the right to be 'married', in some states. This is a sad state of affairs. God sees homosexuality as an 'abomination'. It makes Him sick. It is unnatural, and disgusting. Marriage, as designed by God, was meant to be between one woman, and one man. Anything else cannot truly be called a 'marriage'. Two men, or two women, cannot truly be married 'in the eyes of God'.

Homosexuals are now wanting to change the meaning of marriage. Studies have shown that most same-sex 'marriages', are open 'marriages'. They say they want to be married 'like everybody else'. But they don't. They want everybody else to married like them. Anything goes. Once we allow these things to happen, it's only a matter of time before we legalize marriage between men and animals, or men and boys. I know this sounds like I'm being extreme, but there are actually cases of people trying to get this to happen.

I know all of this makes me sound homophobic. I am not. I friends who are homosexuals, and I love them very much. It is there lifestyle that I do not agree with. God loves them too, but hates the lifestyle they have chosen. God never designed us to have same-sex tendencies. Satan has fed the homosexual lie to the world, and they have believed it. If you read in the Bible, God destroyed the world with a flood, because every wicked thing that they could think of, they did. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the same thing. Their most prominent sin was homosexuality. Sexual sin has brought down and destroyed many societies throughout history. We need to learn from these mistakes, and get our country back to where it needs to be. We need to get marriage back to what God intended it to be. Between one man, and one woman. Period. The health of our country, and our world, depends on it.