Same-Sex Marriage (Thoughtful Response): A Thoughtful Approach to God's Design for Marriage

marriage assumes permanence.

purpose determines function.

We need a word for the unique relationship that best manages those things in a society. Expanding marriage to same-sex couples leaves us without one. But that’s not all.

but also for a good that is greater than themselves.

We can’t pretend it’s not happening,

By placing it in a special category, church people often reflect the same error as the gay liberation lobby—mistaking temptation and attraction for identity.

bakers, bed and breakfast proprietors,

God pronounced the absence of woman as being “not good” because it left man alone and incapable of accomplishing God’s purposes for humanity in His world (2:18). In marriage, two become one, united in every possible way: mind and body and purpose.

2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of DOMA as being unconstitutional, and public approval for same-sex marriage jumped to 53 percent