[Faith-talk] Fw: BreakPoint: So Much for Tolerance, 11/13/08

[Everett Gavel]

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So Much for Tolerance
The Aftermath of Prop 8

November 13, 2008

The ad ran all over California on Election Day -- and 
surely sets a record for anti-religious bigotry. Two 
clean-cut young men knock at the door of a lesbian 
couple. The men identify themselves as Mormon 
missionaries. "We're here to take away your rights," 
they announce.

They snatch the women's wedding rings off their fingers 
and ransack their home. When they find the couple's 
marriage license, they rip it in half. "Say no to a 
church taking over your government," the voiceover 
says. "Vote 'no' on Proposition 8."

Despite such vicious attacks, California's Proposition 
8, which defined marriage as between one man and one 
woman, passed. But the assaults on churches have just 
begun.

Two days after the election, 2,000 homosexual 
protesters surrounded a Mormon temple in Los Angeles 
chanting "Mormon scum." Protesters picketed Rick 
Warren's Saddleback Church, holding signs reading 
"Purpose-Driven Hate." Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills 
was spray painted. Church members' cars have been 
vandalized, and at least two Christians were assaulted. 
Protesters even hurled racial epithets at 
African-Americans because African-Americans voted 
overwhelmingly in favor of traditional marriage.

This is an outrage. What hypocrisy from those who spend 
all of their time preaching tolerance to the rest of 
us!  How dare they threaten and attack political 
opponents? We live a democratic country, not a banana 
republic ruled by thugs.

Clearly, Christians need to redouble their efforts to 
help people understand what marriage is all about. In 
Los Angeles, when protesters gathered at the Cathedral 
of Our Lady of the Angels, they chanted, "What Would 
Jesus say?"

That's a good question, and the Church should not 
hesitate to answer it. What would Jesus say about 
same-sex "marriage?"

To get to the answer, let's first understand the 
meaning and purpose of marriage. In his book THE CLASH 
OF ORTHODOXIES, Princeton philosopher Robert George 
writes that matrimonial law reflects a moral 
judgment -- that marriage is inherently heterosexual, 
monogamous, and permanent -- a union of one man and one 
woman.

This view reflects the biblical and natural law 
understanding that marriage is a two-in-one-flesh 
communion of persons. This communion is consummated by 
sexual acts that are reproductive in nature. They unite 
the spouses as a single procreative unit -- an organic 
unity achieved even by infertile couples. Only a mated 
pair can be a complete organism capable of human 
procreation.

Since homosexual acts have no relationship to 
procreation and cannot unite persons organically, these 
acts cannot be marital -- which means relationships 
integrated around them cannot be marriages.

We've got a winsome case, but we've got to get better 
equipped to explain it to our neighbors. You could 
start by reading THE CLASH OF ORTHODOXIES and other 
material available on our website. And then, start 
discussing these issues in your small groups, Sunday 
school classes, and youth groups.

By protecting traditional marriage, we aren't taking 
away anybody's rights. We are simply upholding the 
framework of society's most basic institution, the loss 
of which would irreparably damage our families and our 
society.


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