Churches object to homosexual marriage not because they are loosing power
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Gary Bouma author of Being Faithful in Diversity: Religions and Social Policy in Multi-Faith Societies and professor of sociology and associate priest at St John's Anglican Parish, East Malvern believes churches are objecting to homosexual marriage because they fear loosing power.
Hollywood has made de-facto relationships famous and normal along with homosexual relationships being promoted as normal with Will & Grace, Lady Gaga and Glee. Regardless of the health statistics, relationship breakdown and multiple defacto relationships strewn across the landscape.
There is no doubt that civil celebrants offer marriage services to the unsaved who do not wish to darken the walls of a church, because they have lived together in fornication and at some point want to legitimate their relationship often because someone maybe preganat. Some defacto's choose to use a celebrant in a fake chapel and pretend church type building wearing white seeking to look most righteous.
Regardless of social role changes within marriage, it has always been and will always be between a man and a woman exclusively. Why? Because churches want power? No because God ordained it as a covenant blessing. For the unsaved common grace can also be experienced in a non-Christian marriage. Pop stars, parliament, Hollywood and you and I did not design marriage. God did for his glory and his purposes. This has nothing to do with power.
Mr Bouma also ignores the health warnings of a homosexual lifestyle, and the effects on the kids of homosexual families. Mr Bouma is wrong.
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