http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004760

So all you marrieds — celebrate, support, encourage, and celebrate again! May the light of Christ shine forth in these man and wife unions – we don’t need the courts’ consent to do this.

Thanks for catching my error….a baby was crawling on me and I lost my words in cyber-space! I left a key word out. The sentence SHOULD have read,
“The widespread practice of contraception by married Christians has born this rotted fruit.”

The Holy Spirit just showed me that my sentence became unintelligible because I eliminated my main point: contraceptive use is deadly to marriage. So, too, contraception use eliminates the end of conjugal love: procreation.

to theshahids: on a personal note, one day you’ll get my Christmas Card!

By its very nature as a secular institution serving all citizens, the law is gender blind. Its legalistic process is flawed in the area of metaphysics. Laws which pretend to treat moral conscience like interstate commerce will ultimately convict God.
Marriage and family are the very essence of the Trinity.
What do the courts know about that? Nothing!

We are allowing and asking a know-nothing legal system to set spiritual matters straight. It cannot!
The double gated crusaders are legitimately enforcing their claim that there is discrimination present because there is, indeed for God’s sake there must be discrimination present. In the definition of marriage the Church and all right minded people discriminate.

The back-to-front perverts know that an activist judiciary is their best friend. They stake their success in the courts and their flawed thinking. They will eventually own the word marriage. It will mean only same sex unions. The normal marriage will be called manage.
We will manage to keep our family intact. We will manage raising our children.
We will somehow manage to pay for all their perversions with our taxes and at the same time pay to protect our children from them.
Then at some point we will not be able to manage it anymore and as Solzhenitsyn
said, the whole cursed machine will come to a screeching halt.

You said,

“The widespread practice of married Christians has born this rotted fruit.”

I believe that the root of this entire issue is the widespread acceptance and use of contraception. There is very little spiritual difference between heterosexual contraceptive intercourse and homosexual intercourse. As gross as that sounds, it’s true if you really stop to think about it.

In our contraceptive society, therefore, there is really no rational argument against same-sex marriage. The author gets as close as can be gotten when he said, “the purpose of marriage is to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to one another.” That boils down to “unitive and procreative.” We, as a society, have essentially done away with the “procreative” aspect, except only at the express will and intent of parents. Unfortunately, one can argue that a trip to the sperm bank (for both the donor and receiver) is an expression of will and intent to be a parent. This pretty much opens the door to any gross distortion of marriage that you want. Want to marry two guys, or girls? How about 50? How about a young consenting minor? HOw about your dog, or cat, or horse? Go for it! It’s all within reach in Iowa and soon within our entire sick, contraceptive country.

Lord, Please help us!

Certainly “Christian Marriage” and Christian Purity will mark individuals as authentic followers of Christ in the 21st century as it did in the 1st Century. For, gender-neutral marriage is simply the opposite side of the “single motherhood” coin. Dan Quayle knew what Murphy Brown could only sneer at: Kids need moms and dads who are married to each other.

The widespread practice of married Christians has born this rotted fruit.

great article….