5 reasons followers of Christ should oppose same-sex marriage despite the Supreme Court's ruling:

Reason #1  Marriage is SACRED.

The abolitionist movement stemmed from Christians that believed EVERY human being bears the image of God and the dignity inherent with that image is SACRED.

Christians oppose the heinous act of killing the unborn because life is SACRED.

Christians oppose racism and segregation because someone's race is SACRED.

Christians oppose homosexuality and the redefining of marriage to include same sex partners (or anything else), because sex is SACRED and marriage is SACRED.

Reason #2  Marriage is not something we define (and redefine); it is something we DESCRIBE.

The issue of whether or not we should include same-sex couples in the definition of marriage comes down to whether or not marriage is something we define or something we describe.  If marriage is something we arbitrarily define, then we can make marriage into anything we want.  Just like food is something we describe (edible substances that nourish our body), marriage is something we describe as well.  No matter how many people you get to sign a petition to recognize broken glass within the definition of food, broken glass will never be food.  No matter how many people you find that can chew and swallow broken glass, broken glass will never be food. 

Marriage is a description that REFLECTS the natural order/law of design from our Creator (the same Creator that is the basis for our civil rights).  When speaking of "natural law" some conflate natural law with animal kingdom law (i.e. what animals do, humans ought to do as well), but this is a mistake.  If natural law meant "what animals DO NATURALLY" then there would be nothing wrong with rape and killing other humans; after all, animals do these things NATURALLY.

Natural Law is a description of a natural order or design that goes beyond just the animal kingdom. We can see natural law at the atomic level. There are two types of electric charges – positive and negative. Positively charged substances are repelled from other positively charged substances, but attracted to negatively charged substances; negatively charged substances are repelled from negative and attracted to positive. 
In construction or electronics, you have "male" and "female" parts that "NATURALLY" fit in with one another and together provide a more functional unit or device.  In biology, the seed (from a male) fits “NATURALLY” with the egg (of a female) to produce a new organism.  

Paul spoke of natural law in Romans 2:14-15: "For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them." God made His law evident in the hearts of all mankind. But, because we live in a fallen world with a sin nature, we are incapable of completely knowing what God's law is, and we cannot follow it (Romans 7:14-25).

You can DEFINE civil unions however you want. Marriage, on the other hand, is holy and sacred--it is ordained by God. "MARRIAGE" is something we DESCRIBE. It's a description of what we see throughout history of a male and a female in a monogamous lifelong commitment that often leads to children, and together they (mother and father) rear that child.

For more on reasons #2 and #3 please watch Alan Shlemon's video (right) on same-sex marriage.

Reason #3  “Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask yourself the question, ‘Why was it put there in the first place?’”--G.K. Chesterton


Will those that stood so firmly with the homosexual community to remove the fence around marriage stand as firmly with the next class of people wanting to redefine marriage?

Will you stand with the parent that wants to marry their child?  If not, why not?

Will you stand with the brothers and sisters that want to marry each other?  If not, why not?

Will you stand by the man that wants to sleep with or marry his dog?  If not, why not? 

Will you stand by the man that wants to marry 20 different women?  If not, why not?

Will you stand by the man that wants to marry a 10 year old?  If not, why not?

Will you stand by  the man who enjoys sex with corpses?  If he hasn't killed them, why not?

Will you stand by the man that wants to marry his computer?  If not, why not?


Some will recoil at the thought of these examples, but remember that reaction was what many had at one time when they thought of homosexuality. In other words, "it's disgusting" is not an argument. If our society supported same sex marriage under the guise of "love is all that matters for marriage", then our society is going to have a hard time telling the people in the above examples--and make no mistake, they are out there--why they cannot get married, or cannot have sex in these abhorrent ways.  In fact, a leading gay activist says "Bestiality is OK if the animal doesn't mind."

 Right now a fence exists around marriage to be between a man and a woman. But there are people outside the fence saying, "what about us, what about us!" If we tear down the fence to build a new one that includes the 'what about us' crowd (homosexuals), there will always be a new bunch that will cry, 'what about us, what about us'!! The 'what about us' cries will always be there until there is full blown sexual anarchy.

I have brought up these bizarre marriages and sexual relationships to homosexual advocates before and the responses I have been getting have been that of acceptance (as long as it is consensual)—yes this includes bestiality and incest.  The homosexual advocates that approve of consensual incest and bestiality is showing how we have fallen as a culture, how we have perverted human dignity, how far we have desacralized sexuality, and how much we have degraded our humanity.

Reason #4  Same-sex marriage is incompatible with religious freedom.


An article by Erick Erickson was written over 18 months ago, but recent developments  (Christian business owners fined for not providing services for a same-sex marriage,  and  Christian ministers threatened  with jail and fines for not performing same-sex weddings) make reading this article seem more like history rather than prophecy.  And don’t forget about the Houston pastors recently having their sermons subpoenaed by the lesbian mayor.

For more on on this topic please see the Marriage=Biology video below.

Reason #5  Legality doesn't equal morality.

If court rulings are your standard of right and wrong, you are making the same mistake the racists that fought to maintain the laws of segregation made, and the slave owners made--the belief that if SCOTUS ruled on it, it's settled, nuff said, it's right! You would be on the wrong side of history if you lived during the SCOTUS Dred Scott ruling (over slavery, and the rights of African Americans). The Supreme Court held that
African Americans whether slave or free, could NOT be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. How about the SCOTUS ruling on May 18, 1896? With only one dissenting vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in America was constitutional.

In short, just because something is delineated from those who sometimes mistake their robe for a cape, doesn't mean it’s right.