The Desecration of Marriage

The Institution of Marriage

It is without question to Christians and Jews alike, that the institution of marriage was first established, and ordained by God himself. We find in the bible that God created manand gave him a woman because it was not good for man to be alone.

“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Gen. 2:18).

It is evident from this scripture that God intended for man to in a relationship. The question then becomes, what type of relationship? In order to find the answer to the above question, and to better understand the institution of marriage we must continue reading the text in its context. It is in the book of Genesis (The book of beginnings) that we find the very first reference of a woman and her God intended role as a wife.

“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and broughther unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shallbe called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”(Gen. 2:22-24).

Although the book of Genesis was economically written, it is more then evident from what we read, that this was God's purpose and intent for man and the type of relationship that he was and is to be in. In this type of relationship that we call marriage, there is a man, a woman and the woman is a wife. Based on these scriptural evidence; we have throughout the ages defined marriage as “between a man and a woman.”

Redefining of marriage

One only has to look up the meaning of marriage to see the changes thatare taking place in this postmodern world. Many “online dictionaries” are giving marriage an extra definition; included are people in same sex relationships. One can ask: how is this possible? There is absolutely no logic to such a thing as “gay/homosexual marriage.” To those in favor of redefining marriage it is simply because its time, and because everyone deserves equal rights. But is it really about equal rights? When pressed about marriage involving incest relationships, those in favor of homosexual marriage seemed to be against equal rights for others. In America today there are some states that had laws passed in favor of equal rights to marriage for same sex couples, most recently New York. In 2008 Californians took to the polls and voted for “Proposition 8” a proposition that recognizedmarriage as between a man and a woman only.

“On November 4, 2008, California voters approved Proposition 8 by a margin of almost600,000 votes. Proposition 8 placed into the California Constitution the same language that voters already passed by 61% of the vote in 2000. This action was necessary to overturn an outrageous California Supreme Court decision that overturned Proposition 22 and had legalized same sex marriage in California” (ProtectMarriage.com 2010).

Prop 8 was later overturned by another California judge, who happen to be in a homosexual relationship. Clearly the rights of thousands of voters did not matter. Thus we can see that “rights” are not the issue.In your face: The real issueIf truly equal rights is not the issue, we are forced to ask: what is the real issue? Clearly we are pressed to accept as normal the homosexual life style. The very fact that people have voted over and again against homosexual marriage, and it is still being imposed on us; makes onewonder how far will this go? A life style that was once considered shameful, is now not only “out of the closet” but is “up in your face.”People became too a afraid of not being “politically correct”that they gave up they're right to Freedom of speech. Now, in the war of ideas and ideologies one side put down their “weapons,” while the other side (postmodernism) became embolden, and has not stopped its attack. Perhaps there are those who wouldn't think of this issue as a war of beliefs,but simple research that reveals far more then a debate between the postmodern mindset vs essentialist mindset.

(Vacek, E. 2003) Explains the differences in the two mindsets involved in the debate, and attempts to the best of his ability to define marriage from an ecclesiastical perspective. Although he is scholastic in his approach, he fails to pin-point the fact that marriage is in its purest essence a religious ceremony. Homosexuality in its fullest form is anti-creation/ anti-God. Its rebellion to the fullest extent. So why are they fighting for something they are openly against? To desecrate it. On the surface we think in the terms of postmodernism vs essentialist, however it is better understood as secularism vs theism.

Conclusion

The effects of an “open society” are already showing, in order to continue to impose their agendapostmodernism is now using its children. J Crew recently publish a catalog in which a mother is doing her son's toe nails hot pink. In New York a couple decided to keep the gender of their new born a secret, citing “a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become”(Associated Press). This same couple have a five year old boy who they happen to allow to pick his own clothes, it just so happens that he picks dresses and his favorite color is pink. Or is it the agenda push and imposed by his parents? Postmodernism/Secularism will stop at nothing, not even the very destruction of their own children.