Same Sex Marriage

I have been considering lately the charge that Christians are homophobic, i.e. fearful of homosexuals. We shrink from the thought that we may be afraid of certain people, when in fact we are not. Still more, we cower from the accusation because we don’t want to be thought of as either unloving or wrongly discriminatory.

But it occurs to me that we are indeed homophobic to the extent that we are fearful of the danger that homosexual practices, politics and that general cultural acceptability of the lifestyle will undermine what God has established as good, honorable and His creation pattern for mankind. We can indeed say that we love homosexual people and desire their salvation and blessing – and do not have any fear that we will be somehow made unclean or unholy because of them. However, we can, in fear of God, be fearful of the consequences of the transformation of marriage into something that it was never designed to be, never has been in history and that can never provide a solid foundation for society.

Alastair Roberts has posted an article he wrote in light on the recent court decision that overturned California’s Proposition 8 that provided that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

The full article can be viewed here

Tags: Alastair Roberts, discrimination, Gay Marriage, same sex marriage