Marriage: Created by God? Case Against Gay Marriage

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I need help.

I’ve been asked to formulate a Biblically-sound argument to prove that marriage was created by God. This is, more specifically, regarding the argument AGAINST gay marriage. Gays are contending that there’s no proof that marriage was created by God, so why should religious leaders be involved in fighting against gay marriage?

Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated (…as so far, I haven’t found anything in the Bible that says that God was responsible for the creation of marriage). Many thanks to you all.

 

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The Nature of Marriage

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The key issue in this whole debate is not equality, discrimination or tolerance. The key issue is the nature of marriage itself. It is only in knowing what marriage is that we can discern who can marry. The Church’s own teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. It’s truly a multicultural perspective. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It has its own nature, essential properties and purpose. Different cultures may modify some of its characteristics (e.g. to include more than one wife or permit divorce), for good or ill, but none has ever redefined it as anything other than between a man and a woman.

Philosopher Michael Pakaluk (“Anti-Sodomy Laws, Just Discrimination & the Nature of Marriage”) illuminates the difference between marriage and other human relationships…

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