Redefining Marriage

There has been quite the talk about gay marriage in the news. Currently, the liberals have strongholds in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Vermont. They're looking to take New Hampshire, Maine, New York, and New Jersey. But what about the people looking out for the family. The family will be torn apart because gays are allowed to be married. Never mind that Massachusetts, the first state to allow gay marriage, has the lowest divorce rates....


Anyways, really, we all know that the only opposition for gay marriage is religious. That's all that can be used to condemn it. The statistics are in the liberals' favor. Children are not worse off if they are raised by gay parents , homosexuality is not a mental illness, etc. That leaves just the idea of sin, which is cleverly worded into the idea that allowing gay marriage is redefining marriage. I will, for this post, ignore that marriage has consistently been redefined in American history, or that traditions besides marriage have not only been redefined but also completely removed from our lives. Instead, I will concentrate on the redefinition of marriage right in the Good Book itself: the holy bible.

If you will look way way back, into Genesis, you'll notice that Jacob had two wives, Leah and Rachel. This was fairly acceptable, God didn't seems to mind much. But skip ahead to the New Testament, and Paul talks about the relationship between man and woman, singular. Within the two testaments, there is a gradual decline in multiple wives and a broad condoning and even preference for single man, single woman marriages.

Now, how can we accept the idea that there should be no redefining of marriage when the place from which this definition is being taken redefined marriage itself?