‘POLICY EXCHANGE’ REPORT - SAME SEX MARRIAGE.
AN OPEN LETTER TO COALITION MPs.
The Biblical Case [Part 6]
Consciously or otherwise, the great majority of people
accept the God given institution of marriage as between one man and one woman
as normal. As many have indicated, to extend marriage to same sex couples is a
distortion, and may well lead to unintended consequences in many areas of life,
and not least for children and education.
For orthodox Christians the words of Jesus on the matter are
both clear and final, which endorse exclusively heterosexual marriage as God’s
plan and purpose – “What God has joined together, let not man put asunder”. The
government plans to change the law, but needs the reminder that there is a
higher law of God on the matter of marriage, and higher than that of any human
government.
In Jesus’ discussion on marriage, albeit in the wider
context of divorce, He drew attention to two facts: First, “human sexuality was
a divine creation, and human marriage a divine ordinance” (J. Stott ‘Issues
Facing Christians Today). By definition therefore same sex unions are a
perversion of the divine order and must be wrong for all concerned.
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