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The Marriage Solution

As the political season continues, I’m always entertained by the amount of political blog fodder out there to read. Everyone has something to gripe about. As a Christian citizen, the world of politics is often confusing and difficult to wade through. How much is the church’s responsibility? How much can we vote for our morality versus simply our worldview? How much should I even care?

One of the issues that is often at the forefront of a lot of Christian political talk is gay marriage. Now, I hardly believe this is a crucial issue in ANY election, while wars, social injustices, famine, human trafficing, violence, and many other crises face our world every day, not to mention the current economy, but nonetheless, it is still a debate that exists essentially because of Christians. But, alas, it has been a stalemate. Unless…

We remove marriage from the government.

Why not? Why not just call every contract between two individuals similar to marriage a ‘civil union.’ That’s all it really is in the eyes of government anyways. In marriage, the government grants you rights such as inheritances, family access in hospitals and crises situations, and a few other perks because of the current identification of marriage. Taxes are another issue, but that can be wrestled with by people who understand taxes more than I do. TurboTax is my friend.

We don’t live in a theocracy. There is a great difference between moral standards that should be shared and respected for citizens to act in peace and moral standards that exist separately for Christians. Dictating morality through legislation never works, and also confuses the whole separation of Church and state in a very detrimental way. How do we expect people to act sexually pure without the empowering of the Holy Spirit? If morality were dictated by laws, why not just imprison everyone for having premarital sex? Its a slippery slope when you start saying how other people should act in their own privacy that does not violate the rights of a consenting adult individual.

If we want to restore the sanctity of marriage in this country, why not give marriage back to the church and other religious institutions. Allow them to define what marriage is, and not the government, so that they may uphold their own standards of sanctity.

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