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**Liabmeasez** · 04-01-2010, 02:31 AM

Forgive me, but I feel that it should be pointed out that the building in question was bulldozed, not because of a gay-wedding performed in it, but because it was structurally unsound and was already scheduled for demolition.

As much as our temples are holy ground, I suspect that if we engaged on a policy of bulldozing every temple that someone committed a sin in, we'd likely have very few left. There are many ways of sinning grieviously with our minds while appearing sanctified on "the outside" after all.

But, I understand the sentiment that whatever qualifies as a LEGAL marriage in any country, does not necessarily impact on what qualifies as a CHRISTIAN marriage. It seems that some Protestant groups are having trouble distinguishing the two.

Father, bless:

With regard to the latter, you can't really blame the Protestants-- their marriages aren't sacramental, so the state marriage is all that they have.

Yet I second the notion that we can't stay out of this discussion. When the state offers something called "marriage" on equal terms to homosexual and heterosexual couples, it is signalling something definite about homosexuality and heterosexuality to impressionable minds everywhere-- namely, that there is a moral equivalence between them, and that one is "just as good" as the other. Simply stating that "it's not really marriage, so it doesn't matter" seems to me to neglect the very real influence of government actions on shaping values and viewpoints. When Caeser speaks, people listen.

In Christ,
Evan

04-01-2010, 02:31 AM	#16
Liabmeasez Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	Forgive me, but I feel that it should be pointed out that the building in question was bulldozed, not because of a gay-wedding performed in it, but because it was structurally unsound and was already scheduled for demolition. As much as our temples are holy ground, I suspect that if we engaged on a policy of bulldozing every temple that someone committed a sin in, we'd likely have very few left. There are many ways of sinning grieviously with our minds while appearing sanctified on "the outside" after all. But, I understand the sentiment that whatever qualifies as a LEGAL marriage in any country, does not necessarily impact on what qualifies as a CHRISTIAN marriage. It seems that some Protestant groups are having trouble distinguishing the two. Father, bless: With regard to the latter, you can't really blame the Protestants-- their marriages aren't sacramental, so the state marriage is all that they have. Yet I second the notion that we can't stay out of this discussion. When the state offers something called "marriage" on equal terms to homosexual and heterosexual couples, it is signalling something definite about homosexuality and heterosexuality to impressionable minds everywhere-- namely, that there is a moral equivalence between them, and that one is "just as good" as the other. Simply stating that "it's not really marriage, so it doesn't matter" seems to me to neglect the very real influence of government actions on shaping values and viewpoints. When Caeser speaks, people listen. In Christ, Evan
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