Proposition 8 and Gay Marriage

Proposition 8 and Gay Marriage
Tim Haile, for the Parkway Church of Christ

Proposition 8 was an amendment to the California state constitution that restricts “marriage” to a union between a man and a woman. It bans “gay marriage.” The amendment passed, but it has created a firestorm of controversy in California and in other places. Gay activists have invaded churches and disrupted their worship services, trampled crosses at demonstrations, and boycotted businesses whose owners favored the anti-gay-marriage amendment. Gays are now working to remove this decision from the hands of the California citizens by taking their case to liberal courts. We shall see where this ends.

Of course, all Bible believers were very pleased with the election results relating to the prop-8 amendment. The Bible teaches that marriage is for one man and one woman (Matthew 19:4-6). It teaches that like all other illicit sexual relations, homosexuality is immoral (Romans 1:26,27; 1 Tim. 1:10; Jude 7).

Gays and lesbians are presently making two faulty arguments in there efforts to protest the recent California election results and legitimize their behavior: 1. They classify gays as just another “minority group.” 2. They equate “gay marriage” with “interracial marriage.”

1. It is faulty classification to classify gays with “Blacks, Jews, Hispanics and Women.” Being “gay” has to do with a particular sexual preference. Being “black” or “white” has to do with race, not sexual behavior. One’s color has nothing to do with his morality. The fact that it is possible for one to engage in sexual perversion whether he is black, white, brown or yellow, male or female, proves that homosexuality is a behavior! It insults and denigrates legitimate classes of people, like Blacks, Hispanics and women, to classify them with some type of sexual deviancy. There is nothing inherently wrong with being black, white, brown, male or female, whereas there is something wrong with practicing homosexuality.

2. No sin is committed when a black man marries a white woman, or a white man marries a black woman! The Bible stipulates “man” and “woman” but it does not stipulate race. It is a specious and godless argument for one to equate “gay marriage” with “interracial marriage.” We must rise up in opposition to those who would redefine God’s institution of marriage and the home.

Parkway Church of Christ, 125 Hilltopper Ave, Bowling Green, KY 42101. Worship Times: Sundays at 10:00AM and 6:00PM - Bible Study: Sundays at 9:00AM and Wednesdays at 7:00PM. Radio: Sundays at 8:00AM on the WKCT 930AM band. Phone: (270) 842-2049 – Email: timhaile@mac.com