Christian Worldview Concepts

A Case Against Gay Marriage

What Can Christians Do About Gay Marriage?

Ask God to continue having mercy on America. Anyone who knows anything about God should be surprised that God's full judgment has not yet fallen on America. Years ago, Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, said, "If God does not judge America for its sins, he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." The arrogance and presumptuousness of homosexuals in the United States tempts the Lord.

Churches must strategize to strengthen heterosexual marriages. The antidote to perversion is purity. Churches should focus on promoting those things that will most strengthen existing marriages. The divorce rate among Christians is unacceptably high, thus the children of divorced parents frequently lack the kind of role models they need as they prepare to enter marriage themselves. Churches must sponsor marriage enrichment weekends, special speakers and schedule special opportunities for married couples to strengthen their marriages. One thing that churches can do to strengthen marriages is to establish a policy of limiting how much involvement a married couple can have in church ministries and activities. Sometimes a person whose marriage is in trouble will become immersed in church activities to avoid dealing with marital problems. Churches need to be alert to this and be prepared to head off a problem before it can develop.

Christians should engage in the public policy debates about same sex marriage in their workplace, community and the political arena. Although homosexuality and the question of gay marriage are moral and spiritual issues, they are also public policy issues that must be debated. Christians must be prepared to engage people in the debate of these issues by being well informed. This means that churches should make sure that they have well-researched, well-documented materials available to their people. This includes being prepared to counter the pro-gay messages conveyed through school curricula and the mass media. Churches can become a clearing house for educational materials that tell the truth about homosexuality, gay marriage, etc.

Recruit a task force to maintain a Christian presence at school board meetings, city council meetings, county commission meetings, etc. to monitor pro-gay activities. The time to oppose policies, ordinances, rules and laws is before they are enacted. This requires vigilance and persistence. You cannot succeed in preventing the further encroachment of the gay rights agenda if you do not know what is happening and who is behind it. It is not by accident that certain mayors have taken it upon themselves to initiate the marriages of homosexuals. These moral raiding parties are probing actions designed to see how strong the opposition to gay marriage will be. It is one thing to take a public opinion poll and quite another to take action in order to gauge the intensity of the response. Being a regular presence at local policymaking meetings sends a message to would-be rouge mayors that unilateral actions designed to advance homosexual interests will be met with stiff resistance. It should be obvious that the best way to combat the problem of public officials taking matters into their own hands is to not elect them in the first place. This means that Christians must be strategically engaged in local politics.