On A Definition Of Marriage Which I Find Amusing
When I read a letter by someone written to theStar, I was quite amused. Amused because he quoted from the American Heritage Dictionary to establish his view that homosexual "union" is, in fact, marriage and amused because the fella's research was as deep as a search on Dictionary.com.
I was amused because he defined marriage as something you do with another person that involves love, commitment, trust, respect etc. I find that amusing because if that is the criteria that it takes to get married, then your sister, brother, father, mother, daughter and son qualifies. After all, you do share love, commitment, trust and respect with them, no? I find it amusing because even animals like a dog could qualify based on that fella's definition. Greg Koukl's quip "You Can't Marry Your Canary" comes to mind.
So what is marriage, then? Marriage is what is instituted by God. In the beginning, God performed the first marriage- and it was between a man and a woman. And throughout the Bible, we find only that- marriages between men and women. Not men and men or women and women. Or human and dog.
It's that simple, and some out of deference to political correctness and to that of their own wants, want to define marriage as something else.
And I find that very amusing.
I was amused because he defined marriage as something you do with another person that involves love, commitment, trust, respect etc. I find that amusing because if that is the criteria that it takes to get married, then your sister, brother, father, mother, daughter and son qualifies. After all, you do share love, commitment, trust and respect with them, no? I find it amusing because even animals like a dog could qualify based on that fella's definition. Greg Koukl's quip "You Can't Marry Your Canary" comes to mind.
So what is marriage, then? Marriage is what is instituted by God. In the beginning, God performed the first marriage- and it was between a man and a woman. And throughout the Bible, we find only that- marriages between men and women. Not men and men or women and women. Or human and dog.
It's that simple, and some out of deference to political correctness and to that of their own wants, want to define marriage as something else.
And I find that very amusing.
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