I'll keep it short...

[tsukikage]

Marriage, he says, "isn't created by human contracts, but it is something that was created by God as a life long faithful partnership between a man and a woman. One of the major goals that marriage serves is to propagate the human race and to promote healthy families within that propagation, but also to model the mental faithfulness between God and his people, and Christ and his church."
- Richard Mouw

Setting the "goal" of marriage of aside; if marriage is a contract with or including God, then why are atheists allowed to marry? Between atheists, this is a seriously-taken commitment to EACH-OTHER!

I know it's old news, but... This makes me feel so sad.

Comments

[belindabird.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, marriage entails what you believe. If you believe in God, then God is a part of your marriage, strengthening it in connection with your faith. If you don't believe in God or just not in the Christian God, then marriage includes what you need to feel complete. To make a blanket statement that the Christian model is the ideal of marriage, mirroring the relationship between "God and his people, and Christ and his Church" is arrogant, because marriage was around way before Christianity and today people of all different religions or those who aren't religious choose to marry for their own happiness or faith, which is no less legitimate a reason. This is why religion has no place in the lawmaking around marriage, because it assumes that just because Christianity is the dominant religion of this country, everyone should be required to fit the mold, even people who are homosexual or aren't Christian or don't want to (or cannot) have children.

I think people tend to forget that, though Christianity is great for a lot of people, it isn't the solution for everyone, and that isn't a bad thing despite what people may say (and I say this from my own personal experience).