Yes, marriage should be defined by religion in a country that supposedly respects all religions… Give me a universally acceptable reason why your definition, which is based on your religion, should be forced as the definition for everybody in this country, of every religion.
First of all, the religions of this country (the mainline churches and liberal jewish and other groups) who now accept homosexual sex (and other behaviors condemned in their own holy writings) have thereby committed APOSTASY by accepting these behaviors so strongly denounced by their founders. And don’t anyone hand me any garbage equating the eating of fat with the laws against sexual morality. Sexual behavior is sacred in it’s proper context, and outside of that context is always, always, always, a desecration of one’s own body which is a temple of the spirit of the divine one.
Eating fat was a proscribed ceremonial law, as was touching the Ark of the Covenant.
The ark was a mere box, of wood overlaid with gold. It was what it STOOD FOR that made it holy, and the Lord HaShem of Israel struck dead ANYONE, other than the Priests, who dared touch it, even pious men like Uzziah who merely wanted to stop it from tipping over when he reached out his hand to steady it, and dropped dead.
Sexual activity outside of male/female marriage is always and everywhere a gross misuse of the body and the purpose for which it was made.
God never instilled gay desires in one single person, not ever.
Those desires, like all other disordered passions of whatever stripe, come from the disconnect within us that is deep rooted due to the “fall of mankind” way back in the mists of pre-History.
The gay sexual lifestyle has been universally condemned, and remains so for the most part, by all human societies, Christian, Jewish, pagan, no particular religion, since the dawn of recorded history. Those nations that did finally embrace and celebrate it,
always in every case did so shortly before their nations collapsed and fell, always during a period of openly embracing nearly every form of immorality.
In ancient Greece and Rome, it was wildly popular just before these nations fell.
(( Hanukkah, by the way, has much more significance than just oil burning for 8 days.
Antiochus, who was oppressing Israel, was trying to force Hellenization including
it’s acceptance of homosexual behavior, onto the Jewish people. This enforced
paganizing of Judaism led to the creation of the (then very good) Pharisees, but
this is all another matter )).
Condemnation of gay sexual activity did not begin with the Catholic Church, nor even with Moses. No societies ever accepted this behavior, unless and until the particular society was on it’s way out. Sodom and Gomorrah were, partly due to this, blown off the face of the earth.
Also, just because pedophilia is not (not yet) accepted in America and other pro-gay-rights nations, is no indication that it won’t be. Acceptance of gross sin is always granted by DEGREES, gradually. The Greeks didn’t always accept pedophilia either. But in their final decades, this behavior was not only accepted, it was, shockingly, thought very NOBLE for an older man to initiate young boys into the mysteries of sexuality by having sex with them. It was actually thought to be noble and good. The descent into depravity proceeds by degrees, it does not happen all at once. Yesterday, adultery began to be referred to euphemistically as “having an affair”, thus stripping it of it’s stigma as a vile act of treason. FORNICATION was gently redefined as extramarital sex, then in the 60s, this evil was re-named “free love,” making it sound actually noble. Today, it is the gay lifestyle that is accepted. Now gay MARRIAGE is being advocated.
Mark my word (and I am no genius): Pedophilia IS going to be promoted and accepted in the United States and the rest of the Western World. It IS. And it will be Media Liberals,
liberal movie stars, liberal politicians, and the Apostate mainline Churches, who, once it starts being promoted, will be leading the charge. You can count on it.
