Well, in all fairness, sensible people look around at their friends, neighbors, and family who are in loving homosexual relationships. The idea that a loving relationship could possibly be evil simply doesn’t compute, especially when you consider that God is Love personified.
Notice how any / most of the arguments have some component of “well, you might think it’s love, but it’s actually evil in disguise”?
I think the issue here is one of ambiguity. A loving relationship is not reducible to a sexual relationship. There are all kinds of loving relationships that do not involve sex: parent-child, grandparent-parent, siblings, friends. All of these are loving relationships and no one would argue that they are evil. However, if any of them did become sexual any sensible person could say, something very disfunctional (and even evil) has transpired.
The crucial question is, “Which relationships should incorporate sex?”
If someone made the argument that any loving relationship could involve sex, that would be problematic, don’t you agree?
Peter Williams makes an important point regarding the definition of marriage once it becomes abstracted from its inherently functional purpose, I.e., the procreation of children. He argues on the British Christian Radio program Unbelievable? (link below) that once marriage becomes defined by law as based upon “loving relationship” rather than procreative union, then the law becomes wide open to challenge that any form of “loving” relationship, such as polygamy, incest, polyandry, multiple spouses, etc. would be legally sanctioned because by definition each of these could be argued to be “loving” in the same sense that gay marriage is. The distinctive feature for marriage should be the natural, functional one - that is the the one that has served as the historical basis of the family unit and of civilization. Once that “natural” bond of marriage to procreation is ruptured, the result is a legal Pandora’s box of alternatives that have the same justification to be upheld under the law as gay marriage because the definition of “loving relationship” includes all of them. The law will have no teeth.
premierradio.org.uk/listen/ondemand.aspx?mediaid={45A7CC8B-2EE9-4394-B030-54C00AA7CA39}
He has an article here as well.
To answer your concern that…, “
The idea that a loving relationship could possibly be evil simply doesn’t compute, especially when you consider that God is Love personified.”
Think of those “loving relationships” listed above, parent-child, brother-sister, brother-brother, sister-sister, male to multiple females, female to multiple males, multiple males to multiple females. Would you truthfully consider none of these loving relationships to be “evil” when they begin to involve sex?
] were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (Jn 1:1,3)