God’s Design for Marriage in Maine, and Everywhere
What is God’s design for marriage and for child-raising? The union of one male and one female, fruitfully multiplying, holding fast to one another.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it …” Gen 1:27-28 (ESV) 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Gen 2:24 (ESV)
Jesus Christ affirmed and strengthened this principle of marriage, telling us that marriage is for a man and a woman, for life.
4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matt 19:4-6 (ESV)
Paul reiterated that marriage is one man and one woman, each loving, respecting, and serving the other by imitating Christ; this loving marriage brings glory to God.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, …28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, … 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” …33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Eph 5:25-33 (ESV)
This article by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse contradicts the frequent contention that large numbers of gay couples are raising children and need the protection of legal marriage. The facts of this situation are in agreement with God’s design for marriage. Lets do all we can to support true marriage for the benefit of children, the good of our society, and to please God our Father.
Ruth Institute Blog » Puff Piece Goes Poof–Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse.
A key excerpt from the article, emphasis added:
Yes, you read that correctly: Two-tenths of 1% of couples in America are same-sex couples raising children.
One of the most appealing rhetorical questions posed by advocates of same-sex “marriage” is: “Gays and lesbians are already raising children. Why shouldn’t they and their children have the legal protections of marriage?” But these figures, produced by the Williams Institute, a pro-homosexuality think tank, show that a truly tiny percentage of children is at stake. We are being urged to redefine marriage to protect the children of two-tenths of 1% of all the couples in America. And we’re bigots if we resist. This puts new perspective on demands for same-sex “marriage.”
