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Gay Marriage in 2014


We spent New Year‘s eve at Jason and Mel’s together with their guests. A whole range of topics were talked about and one of them was on gay marriage.

Like I said a while back, I think gay marriage is an issue which would not go away and would be bigger and more front and centre. Already, talkback radio in the past couple of days, as they were chatting about what the big issues in 2014 would be, has identified this as one. Even if it isnt as big an issue with big parts of the community, it is one which would undoubtedly occupy chunks of airwaves, column inches and hours of dinner party conversations.

I had read Robert Gagnon’s book last year. Earlier, I read Rosaria Butterfield’s “Secret Thoughts of anUnlkiely Convert” and I still havent grappled with how to deal with this issue. Knowing an array of information and facts is one thing but packaging it all up for delivery is a different challenge.

Or maybe simply focus on sharing the gospel with as many people as possible? Wouldnt that be a better way for a church/christian to deal with this issue? It’s a tough one…

See some of Gagnon’s summary points here (the book’s a tome):http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/GagnonHomosexuality.php 

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Marriage and Family – Dont LIke The Old Model? Think Again


Gay Couple with child
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A report by a family law professor has found “…adverse impacts on Australian children of the rapid changes in family structure, including the rise in parental separation due to divorce and the breakdown of co-habiting relationships.”

See the news articles here and here.

That law professor is Patrick Parkinson from Sydney University and was a key policy advisor which shaped the Family Law Act 2006. The report was commissioned by the Australian Christian Lobby and you’d expect sneers arising from this to suggest somehow the report may therefore carry less weight but any reasonable consideration must not ignore the expertise Professor Parkinson brings to the subject.

I’ll make the obvious extension to same sex relationships. I have alluded to this in earlier entries, going back some years now, but it needs to be said again. We don’t know yet what the abandonment of traditional nucleus family of a heterosexual relationship, legally married, does to the well being of children and society as a whole. This model for a nucleus family is being abandoned principally to accommodate individuals who prefer to decide for themselves what is – or feels – right. That appears to be no different to what Eve and then Adam did in the Garden of Eden. It’s the age-old issue of rebellion against God and putting ourselves up as gods instead. Some call that sin.

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