The Garden State of New Jersey is the latest state to take up the issue of Same Sex Marriage and appears close to passing this into law.
What is the obligation of traditional Christians, those who believe fully in the Faith received by the Saints (Jude 3) and the Nicene Creed, in the midst of these battles?
On the one hand, it is easy to say that such things are the realm of government and not the province of the Church. But this is the easy way out. We are not called by Jesus to merely read the Gospel and, at best, live it out in our personal lives. This would be akin to putting the lamp under the lampshade. No, we are called by Christ to take the Gospel into the world so that the power of the Gospel can bring all men to Christ.
Practically speaking, we have to call wrong things wrong and evil things evil. Marriage is a sacrament created by God to bring a man and woman into a Covenential relationship which is on outward and visible sign of the Grace bestowed by God's Covenential relationship with us. Anything other than that sacramental formulation (eg, same-sex marriage) is contra to God's word.
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