I've...
been away from blogging for awhile. I've been busy studying for my Maths and Business exams respectively- ergo I've not been thinking much on other issues- hence my absence. I don't like the feeling of not blogging (Don't know why), but I guess when I'm not writing my thoughts down for some time, they build up and more posts result, so maybe I'll be able to go on another blogging streak. For me at least, blogging once a day is a next to impossible task, but maybe I'll start trying soon =)
Anyway, I guess I'll have to chip in my 2 cents on the much publicised story of the marriage of a transsexual with "her" spouse. Dave a.k.a. the Hedonese has posted a good reply to the issue. I'll jot down some of my own.
People have certainly responded to the issue, some with the traditional "include, not exclude" call for tolerance if not acceptance of them and their marriage. There are others, like me, who would certainly object to such a thing being called a "marriage"- as well as being the right thing. The question is whether "she" is truly a woman. No doubt "she" feels like one. But, people feel all kinds of things. They feel happy, sad. They feel like giving, they feel like killing. It should be said that some emotions could not be considered natural. What more when a man feels like he is a woman. One has to ask whether his feelings are legitimate- whether he is truly what he "feels" he is- a woman. Since God made us man and woman- and we certainly take the gender we are born with the gender we truly are- I don't see any reason why God would make a man on the outside and woman on the inside. Sure, sin has scarred us- it may touch us physically and spiritually- but I doubt it can ever go that far.
So, in the end, I answer the question of whether their marriage is legitimate, whether it is right. I say no. After all, marriage- as God instituted it- is between a man and a woman. Not just between those who are man or woman on the outside, but those who are man or woman inwardly, spiritually as well.
Anyway, I guess I'll have to chip in my 2 cents on the much publicised story of the marriage of a transsexual with "her" spouse. Dave a.k.a. the Hedonese has posted a good reply to the issue. I'll jot down some of my own.
People have certainly responded to the issue, some with the traditional "include, not exclude" call for tolerance if not acceptance of them and their marriage. There are others, like me, who would certainly object to such a thing being called a "marriage"- as well as being the right thing. The question is whether "she" is truly a woman. No doubt "she" feels like one. But, people feel all kinds of things. They feel happy, sad. They feel like giving, they feel like killing. It should be said that some emotions could not be considered natural. What more when a man feels like he is a woman. One has to ask whether his feelings are legitimate- whether he is truly what he "feels" he is- a woman. Since God made us man and woman- and we certainly take the gender we are born with the gender we truly are- I don't see any reason why God would make a man on the outside and woman on the inside. Sure, sin has scarred us- it may touch us physically and spiritually- but I doubt it can ever go that far.
So, in the end, I answer the question of whether their marriage is legitimate, whether it is right. I say no. After all, marriage- as God instituted it- is between a man and a woman. Not just between those who are man or woman on the outside, but those who are man or woman inwardly, spiritually as well.
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on Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 7:35 PM.
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