If Christians press the state to recognize our view of marriage, aren't we forcing our religious commitments on society?
This would certainly be a legitimate
argument if the Christian church independently came up with the
definition of marriage as a heterosexual
and monogamous covenant based on God's
revelation in Scripture and then told secular society they had to
agree with us.
But that is both a legal and historical fiction. That
conversation has never happened. Secular society itself consistently
defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman throughout millennia
of human history.
Only recently has secular society been pushing same sex union, same sex marriage and homosexuality has been seen as immoral hence sodomy was decriminalized. This push is worldwide. One needs to ask the question why? The homosexual elite are focused on one group - Christians who disagree with this new morality. Hollywood has tamed the gay image and made it look nice and acceptable. But scripture is clear it is neither nice nor acceptable to God.
Traditional marriage has existed for so long without any reference to
Christianity, and, in most of the world, without any reference to the Bible. The notion
of marriage as solely the union of a man and a woman is neither
exclusively Christian nor exclusively biblical.
The push for immoral homosexual marriage or unions is a recent matter, even a recent rebellion thriving in a post modern individualistic world.
Obedience to the Scripture
means that believers cannot forfeit the definition of marriage found in
Scripture, but civil societies around the world have not operated uniformly
on the basis of Christian conviction. Nevertheless, they have-until
recently-uniformly established marriage as the union of a man and a
woman.
