This is not to say it should permit or allow marriage of two
persons not of the opposite gender.
The discussion covers some
related points in my opinion.
1. Marriage should be banned as a state function and all tax
advantage or penalty in favor of the married or for that matter the unmarried (
if the marriage is the determinant of the tax advantage or disadvantage).
2. A child deserves a support system and no state gets the
power or right to decide what that support system looks like, which is not to
be confused with child abuse or neglect which should be a matter of grave state
concern.
3. The same is not true though of this silliness over state
sanctioned sexual relations which has nothing to do with the welfare of
children and when there is only that
"statism" position that procreation needs to be encouraged or
discouraged by state action.
4. Government can stay out of the bedroom as far as I'm
concerned unless for non-consentual assault or rape or sexual servitude or
slavery.
5. The real issue for Christians is the sacrament of
marriage and fidelity to marriage vows and abstinence of human sexual relations
outside of marriage.
6. The purpose of Christian marriage is to provide Jesus
Christ as the third partner in making a married life together. This is about not making the morality of
Christian marriage a matter of imposition, rather about preserving the
sacrament of marriage.
7. As a Christian in favor of the sacrament of marriage, I
am in favor of it for everyone who freely chooses it.
8. I do not see how a covenant made with God can be limited
to those capable of procreation.
9. The sexual consumation of two people married to one
another that is not open to procreation has to be offensive to no one but the
couple themselves.
10. It's certainly not the province of organized religion to
decree what is and is not sanctioned sexual relations, or is that Church
sponsored sexual relations?
11. The sad reality is that many will not conceive a
child. I just do not want to make that
miracle of life a determinant of whether or not God in fact blesses those who
enter into covenant with God to sanctify their union.
12. An adopted child who is loved and cared for by two in a
covenanted relation with God has to claim that their union has been blessed
(even should their marriage ultimately fail).
13. The human condition is about brokenness and only in God
do we ever experience wholeness of purpose and result.
