You will know by now dear reader that I most definitely disagree with the term 'marriage' being used to describe the various legal partnership arrangements that are taking place. I stand by the teaching which emphasises that marriage is the sanctification of the union between a man and a woman, and that its prime purpose is the procreation of children. The ceremony is perform in the sight of God and receives His blessing on the union. It is pleasing to Him, because it is what He intended for men and women. The Bible makes no allowance for sex outside of marriage. It is regarded as sin. Further, it makes no allowance for same-sex unions.
There is no means of interpreting Scripture correctly that would allow the exchange of marriage vows between two people of the same sex as happened at the 12th century church of St Bartholomew the Great in London, on May 31st 2008. To compound the degradation of the Scripyural intent of marriage, this was between two male priests, and was conducted by the rector, Rev Martin Dudley. This blasphemous ceremony took place despite the Church of England's ruling against such ceremonies.
That the details of this event have been so freely publicised, including photos of the two men dancing together at their 'reception', only serves to demonstrate the distance between God and the people who support this type of blasphemous union.
The following, which I leave you to draw your own conclusions from, is an extract from a report by Janet Folger which is headlined:
How Same-Sex Marriage Points To The End Of The World
What do May 17, 2004, and May 15, 2008, have in common? One judge and a redefinition of marriage against the will of the people. Both the Massachusetts Superior Court and the California Supreme Court by a one-judge margin redefined what marriage has always been in every culture and every religion for more than 5,000 years of recorded history. Why does this matter? As I wrote in my book, "The Criminalization of Christianity," Jeffrey Satinover, who holds an M.D. from Princeton and doctorates from Yale, MIT and Harvard, was on my radio program one day and I asked him about where we are in history. He explained that according to the "Babylonian Talmud" – the book of rabbis' interpretation of the scriptures 1,000 years before Christ, there was only one time in history that reflects where we are right now. There was only one time in history, according to these writings, where men were given in marriage to men, and women given in marriage to women. Want to venture a guess as to when? No, it wasn't in Sodom and Gomorrah, although that was my guess. Homosexuality was rampant there, of course, but according to the Talmud, not homosexual "marriage." What about ancient Greece? Rome? No. Babylon? No again. The one time in history when homosexual "marriage" was practiced was … during the days of Noah. And according to Satinover, that's what the "Babylonian Talmud" attributes as the final straw that led to the Flood. Rabbi Aryeh Spero verified this to be true. Rabbi Spero spoke of God's compassion before the Flood, in hopes people would repent and turn back to His ways. He showed patience for hundreds of years. But, he said, the Talmud's writings reveal that "before the Flood people started to write marriage contracts between men, in other words, homosexual 'marriage,' which is more than homosexual activity – it's giving an official state stamp of approval, a sanctification … of homosexual partnership." In fact, he said, "the writings indicated that it wasn't even so much the 'straw that broke the camel's back,' but that the sin in and of itself is so contrary to why God created the world, so contrary to the order of God's nature, that God said then and there 'I have to start all over … to annihilate the world and start from the beginning. …'"
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