1,000-YEAR-OLD MARRIAGE CONTRACT GOES ON DISPLAY IN JERUSALEM

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“Thus saith the LORD: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, …the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that say: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endureth for ever’, even of them that bring offerings of thanksgiving into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, saith the LORD.”

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Jeremiah 33:10-11

Ahuva Balofsky, Breaking Israel News (BIN) — The National Library of Israel is launching an exhibition on the ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract, featuring a rare, 11th-century document from Safed, reports Israel Hayom. The Safed ketubah testifies to a vibrant Jewish presence in the city 1,000 years ago.

“This is one of the first and only existing artifacts that testifies to the Jewish community in Safed during that period,” Dr. Yoel Finkelman, the National Library’s Judaica curator, told the paper.

The ketubah is essential a traditional prenuptial agreement, in which the groom’s responsibilities to the bride, both during the marriage and after, whether terminated by death or divorce, are outlined. It is an essential part of the Jewish wedding ceremony to this day.

The document is typically written in Aramaic, and contains a standard text, which identifies the couple, location and date of the marriage. However, it can be personalized. “For example, a well-off family may offer to provide more financially in order to marry a woman from a well-respected family, or a family of Torah scholars,”said Finkelman.

It would also outline what the bride is bringing into the marriage, and what would happen to that property should the marriage dissolve. “For instance, if the woman has expensive jewelry, or her parents give gifts in honor of the wedding, and then the couple divorce, those items are returned to her,” Finkelman said.

The scribe who formulated the Safed document is listed as Yosef Hacohen, son of Yaakov, and the couple is named as Natan Hacohen, son of Shlomo, and Rachel, from Safed. It was drawn up in the city known as Tzur, and is dated Nov. 28, 1023.

The Safed ketubah includes a list of the bride’s jewelry, household items and clothing, including the weight and monetary value of each item. It also details what to do with said items in different scenarios which might affect the marriage, such as if the wife becomes mentally unstable.

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And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. ~ Genesis 12:3

AND THEN THEY CAME FOR MARRIAGE…

This Republic Was Not Established By Cowards: And Cowards Will Not Preserve It

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME...

Bradlee Dean, The Sons of Liberty — When the hypocrites and accomplices to Adolph Hitler (Matthew 7:21-23) would sing praises to Jesus in the protestant churches in Germany, they would sing louder to drowned out the noise of the Jews, Gypsies and dissidents that were crying out for help while they were being hauled off in cattle cars to concentration camps, or even worse, extermination camps (Psalm 78:9).

When church services were over they would find their cars toppled with the ash of the bodies that were burned in the incinerators.

To further the atrocities of these traitors to Christ, they were the ones handing off their youth groups to do Hitler’s killing for them.

These professors loved Jesus so much that they simply disobeyed His commandments at every opportunity that they had (1 John 2:4).

I am sure most of you have heard:

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“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out
—Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out
—Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
—Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

- Martin Niemöller

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Martin Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for this quotation. I have heard this quote many times before, but it was just recently that I learned that the man who said it was a prominent Protestant pastor during the time of Hitler and the Nazis. It was learning this fact that made all the difference in the world in understanding from where this quote stemmed.

This quotation stemmed from Niemöller's lectures during the early post-war period. His point was that Germans and, in particular, the leaders of the Protestant churches had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people.

Niemöller was one of the earliest Germans to talk publicly about the broader complicity in the Holocaust and guilt for what had happened to the Jews. Although he did suffer, spending the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps, he still recognized his own guilt for not speaking out against tyranny.

In fact, we could rewrite Niemöller’s quote quite well for the modern day church leaders of the day. It would probably go something like this:

First they came for prayer in school, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a student. Nor did I ever look into the fact that the Supreme Court is not above the law (Article 3, Sections 1 of The United States Constitution (Ephesians 6:18).

Then they came to murder the unborn in their mother’s womb, and I did not speak out— Because I was not an unborn child. After all, I was told that the Supreme Court could sanction the murder of the innocent in the womb by simply calling it a woman’s choice (Proverbs 6:17).

Then they came for marriage through the legalization of two men or two women getting “married” to upend America’s sovereignty, and I did not speak out (as if to say the Supreme court injustices have a God given right to redefine what God Himself designed)— because I did not want to be called a hater or a bigot (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1:24)

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me, because I never spoke out for anyone else (let alone God) (Ezekiel 3).

It is disgraceful what we are not seeing from the pulpits in America today. Rather than seeing a thunderous barrage of righteous indignation against murder of the unborn, and zeal against tyranny, injustice, immorality, we are hearing virtually nothing from over 300,000 pulpits…silence (Zechariah 1:15).

We hear Church leaders (1 Corinthians 12:28) say, “Well, I don’t speak out against anything political.” The murder of innocent children, political? Homosexual marriage, political? A corrupt, wicked, and lawless administration that means to destroy your country and religious freedom, political?

Here we see in Niemöller, a man who could not change the destruction that took place in the lives of millions of people. Prevention would have been better than cure. He could not go back in time and right the wrongs, but America still can.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who?

Together, we can turn this destruction around, but if you choose to remain silent, don’t be surprised when they come for you and there is no one left to speak out. And at that point you can rest assured that others may sing loud enough to drown out your cries.

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A SHAMEFUL DAY FOR THE ‘CHARLOTTE OBSERVER’

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"The Charlotte Observer" has officially declared war on people of faith
and conservative moral values, says Michael Brown.

War Declared On People Of Faith
And Conservative Moral Values

Dr. Michael Brown, In The Line Of Fire, Charisma News —

In what sounded more like a gay activist's screed in a high-school publication than a serious editorial in a major newspaper, The Charlotte Observer has officially declared war on people of faith and conservative moral values, mocking those who believe there is the slightest rational reason to resist the radical redefinition of marriage.

Making no attempt to hide its disdain for the conservative, historic position, and gleefully mocking the views of the majority of North Carolinians, the editorial begins with three sentences ending in exclamation points—when is the last time you have seen that in a major editorial?—deriding the idea that there could be any negative consequences to redefining marriage.

In fact, after scorning a circumspect quote from Tony Perkins on Monday's Supreme Court decision not to hear several cases addressing the redefining of marriage, the Observer states, "All that's missing is Bill Murray in the movie Ghostbusters predicting 'a disaster of biblical proportions ... human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!'"

Is the editorial staff at The Observer ignorant of the fact that, throughout the centuries, there have been homosexual relationships in many different societies, and yet no society sought to redefine marriage—even where homosexuality was approved? Could there be a reason for this?

Are the editors unaware that respected gay activists have suggested that their way of marriage—sometimes called being "monogamish" or open—will help to change and loosen up heterosexual marriages?

Is there nothing to the fact that, in England, a woman can be a husband and a man can be a wife? That in California, a new bill is calling for lesbian mothers to be able to be listed as fathers on their children's birth certificates (and vice versa for gay men)?

Is it possible that two mothers do not equal a father and that two fathers do not equal a mother? Is it possible that it is not in the best interest of children to deprive them willfully of either their mother or father? Have the editors read the agonizing stories of children produced by anonymous sperm donors (a very common occurrence among lesbian couples in particular)?

Should we not take a deep breath and think through the consequences of "marriage equality"? Should we not listen to lawyers who are arguing for consensual adult incest based on "marriage equality for all"?

Are the editors unaware of scores and scores of cases across America in which our freedoms of conscience, speech and religion are being trampled underfoot in the name of gay activism?

And do millions of Christians simply discard the words of Jesus, reiterating the teaching of Genesis, that marriage, by God's design (implying biological, emotional and spiritual compatibility) is the union of one man and one woman for life (see Matthew 19)?

What moves many of us to stand against the redefinition of marriage is not any animus toward the LGBT community (although they will surely perceive it as such) but rather a desire to preserve what is best for our society.

Rather than engaging the issues seriously, The Observer has chosen to respond with sophomoric mockery and triumphalism, marking a shameful day in the history of this venerable publication.

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MICHAEL L. BROWN is the founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, Director of the Coalition of Conscience, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicated talk radio show, the Line of Fire, as well as the host of the Jewish-outreach, documentary TV series, Think It Thru, which airs internationally on the INI network. He became a believer in Jesus 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world, bringing a message of repentance, revival, reformation, and cultural revolution.

He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Denver Theological Seminary, the King’s Seminary, and Regent University School of Divinity, and he has contributed numerous articles to scholarly publications, including the Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion and the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.

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~ Jesus, Matthew 7:13

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SIGNS HOMOSEXUAL BILL ELIMINATING TERMS ‘HUSBAND’ AND ‘WIFE’

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Legislation Removes “Outdated” and “Biased”
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Heather Clark, Christian News Network — (SACRAMENTO, California) The governor of California has signed a bill into law that redefines marriage and replaces the terms ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ with the generic term ‘spouse.’

Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1306 on Monday, which will take effect on January 1, 2015.

“Under existing law, a reference to ‘husband’ and ‘wife,’ ‘spouses,’ or ‘married persons,’ or a comparable term, includes persons who are lawfully married to each other and persons who were previously lawfully married to each other, as is appropriate under the circumstances of the particular case,” it reads. “The bill would delete references to ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ in the Family Code and would instead refer to a ‘spouse,’ and would make other related changes.”

The legislation had been presented by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn the 9th Circuit ruling that declared California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The matter hails back to 2008 when voters in California were presented with a ballot initiative asking if residents wished to enshrine marriage in the state as being between a man and woman. The measure, which sought to add an amendment to the state Constitution to protect the Biblical definition of marriage from infringement, passed by five percentage points.

However, with the courts ruling against Proposition 8, Leno sought to likewise change California law to alter the definition of marriage and reflect same-sex nuptials.

“I am pleased Governor Brown has recognized the importance of this bill, which makes it explicitly clear in state law that every loving couple has the right to marry in California,” Leno commented in a statement this week. “This legislation removes outdated and biased language from state codes and recognizes all married spouses equally, regardless of their gender.”

But Christians in the state have expressed disappointment over the matter, opining that the government has been wrong to override the will of the people.

“This bill continues the pattern we’ve been seeing the last few years of politicians ignoring the people to advance the agenda of marriage redefinition,” Matthew McReynolds, attorney with the Pacific Justice Institute in California, told Christian News Network. “What these politicians don’t want people to know is that their actions are illegitimate. Contary to media myths, Prop. 8 has not been invalidated on a statewide basis. Instead, these politicians are exercising raw power, ignoring the Constitution and counting on the people and the courts not to hold them accountable.”

Gov. Brown also generated outrage last fall when he signed a bill that mandated insurance companies in the state to provide coverage for infertility treatments for homosexuals.

“The way the law works, gay and lesbian couples would simply have to testify that they have been having sex for a year without producing a child to be considered ‘infertile,’ which is [100% of the time], since baby-making requires necessary components missing in homosexual activity,” commented writer Ben Shapiro.

“It doesn’t mean situations in which two gay men are both infertile and incapable of impregnating a surrogate mother,” he continued. “It means situations in which gay or lesbian couples can’t make a baby by having sex with each other. In other words, every single gay and lesbian couple on the planet.” » Full Article

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MARRIAGE SUFFERS ANOTHER ATTACK

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Judge With Single Stroke Of A Pen Ignores The Will
Of A 1.6 Million Citizen Majority Who Legally Voted
For A Constitutional Amendment

On Today’s Show (June 9, 2014): Guest Julaine Appling is President of Wisconsin Family Council and Wisconsin Family Action. They address cultural and legislative issues that impact the state's most valuable natural resource—traditional families. They work toward advancing Judeo-Christian principles and values by strengthening and preserving marriage, family, life and liberty. This organization is at the forefront of fighting to preserve marriage in Wisconsin.

Imagine a situation where a judge, by the single stroke of a pen, ignores the will of a 1.6 million citizen majority who legally voted for a constitutional amendment.

This is exactly what happened late last week when Judge Barbara Crabb ruled Wisconsin's marriage protection amendment unconstitutional.

Why should the government seemingly be more interested in 'loving and committed relationships' absent the future generations that are the result of heterosexual marriage? How can the state define a relationship as 'marriage' absent the conjugal aspect? What does this mean for the polyamorist movement? These are just a few points that Julaine discusses with Vic as she takes a look at this latest attack on marriage in our nation.

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: A DISTURBING DAY FOR FREE SPEECH

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Holding Same Opinion Obama Held in 2008’

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this is a disturbing day for free speech and this country, and it’s been trending. For 25 years… I don’t know. I’ve been thinking that at some point we’re going to bottom out or reach a point where a majority of Americans are just gonna put their foot down and say, “No more!” But it hasn’t happened.

The fear and intimidation of average, ordinary Americans is at an all-time high — fear and intimidation that is silencing people. I’ve been following a story for the past five days, and I purposely have not mentioned it, as I didn’t want to have any influence on the outcome. I wanted to see where this went on its own.

Yes, I’m talking about Brendan Eich from Mozilla. I wanted to see where this went before I weighed in on it. There is cowardice; there is totalitarianism. Political correctness doesn’t even get close to describing what this “story,” for lack of a better term, is all about.

Suffice it to say that Brendan Eich is an average, ordinary guy who happens to be pretty brilliant. He’s a computer tech/engineer and one of the cofounders of Mozilla. Now, you may not know the name Mozilla, but if you use the Firefox Internet browser, it comes from Mozilla.

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FEDERAL JUDGES USING SUPREME COURT’S DOMA RULING TO HALT STATE STATUES PROTECTING MARRIAGE

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Heather Clark, Christian News Network — In what some are describing as a ‘reverberation’ throughout America, several federal judges across the nation are citing the Supreme Court decision that struck down a key component of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as their basis to halt state statutes pertaining to marriage protections.

As previously reported, last month, a federal judge in Ohio granted two homosexual men an injunction against a state law that prohibits the recognition of same-sex “marriage” ceremonies performed in other states. The men had traveled to Maryland after the state began issuing licenses, but found that their home state of Ohio would not recognize the union.

Therefore, they sued the state, and Judge Timothy Black, an Obama appointee, put a temporary halt on the law as the case moves forward, citing the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling in U.S. v. Windsor.

“The purpose served by treating same-sex married couples differently than opposite-sex married couples is the same improper purpose that failed in Windsor and in Romer: ‘to impose inequality’ and to make gay citizens unequal under the law,” Black wrote. “Although the law has long recognized that marriage and domestic relations are matters generally left to the states, the restrictions imposed on marriage by states, however, must nonetheless comply with the [U.S.] Constitution.”

Similarly, in Michigan, two separate federal judges granted injunctions against state statutes pertaining to homosexuality, citing the conclusion reached by the Supreme Court in June. One of the cases surrounds two lesbians who are seeking to marry and adopt children.

“Construing the facts in the light most favorable to plaintiffs, and in view of the Supreme Court’s current statement of the law,” Judge Bernard Friedman wrote, “this court cannot say that plaintiffs’ claims for relief are without plausibility. Plaintiffs are entitled to their day in court and they shall have it.”

A second case dealt with two men who were challenging the state’s denial of benefits to the partners of homosexuals.

“[I]t is hard to argue with a straight face that the primary purpose — indeed, perhaps the sole purpose — of the statute is other than to deny health benefits to the same-sex partners of public employees,” stated Judge David Lawson.

He mocked the state’s defense as being “close to striking [the court] with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish.”

Therefore, just a few months out from the ruling, some speculate that the Supreme Court decision–although centered on a federal matter–could have an impact nationwide on the states.

“It’s a pattern that’s emerging–and it’s striking,” professor David Cruz from the University of Southern California told the Wall Street Journal. “Judges are embracing [the Supreme Court's] principles.”

“Needless to say, if other courts follow this lead, we’ll have coast-to-coast legal gay marriage as a matter of Full Faith and Credit with the only limitation on gay couples [being] their ability to travel to a pro-SSM state temporarily to get hitched,” concurred the website Hot Air.

A number of similar lawsuits are currently pending across the country, including in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, with the ACLU and others vowing to file numerous other legal challenges nationwide.

“It’s unfortunate that there are people out there who want to ban this state from defining marriage as it has been defined by virtually everyone since the beginning of recorded history,” the Kentucky Family Association told reporters. » Full Article

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U.S. BRACES FOR HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

This week the Supreme Court will hand down four decisions that will mark a turning point for the United States, and some possible outcomes could even change the course of this country for the rest of our national existence.

Ken Klukowski, Breitbart — The High Court heard 75 cases this year. As this week begins, 64 have been decided, meaning the final 11 will come down this week as the Court concludes its 2012 Term. Seven are run-of-the-mill cases, but the other four are as big as they get.

In terms of turning points, there are two major cases involving race. It’s also noteworthy that both cases were argued by the constitutional law firm Wiley Rein, specifically two of that firm’s partners: Burt Rein and Will Consovoy.

The first is Fisher v. University of Texas. [Full disclosure: at the request of one of the parties, I authored a brief in this case for economists and statisticians.] The petitioners argued that racial preferences in the admissions process at the University of Texas violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court could narrowly rule in their favor, or it could go so far as to overrule prior cases, especially the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, and rule that racial preferences are always unconstitutional. That is the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and, for me, it is the correct view.

The second is Shelby County v. Holder. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) requires certain states and localities—mostly in the South—to receive permission from a federal court or the U.S. Justice Department before redrawing legislative districts after each census, or changing their voting laws or procedures. In 1966, the Supreme Court held in Katzenbach v. McClung that Section 5’s intrusion into state sovereignty is authorized by the Fifteenth Amendment because of egregious voter suppression in the 1960s. Now that America is a very different place, the justices are considering whether VRA Section 5 is no longer justified by the Constitution.

The last two major cases are the marriage cases. [Full disclosure: at the request of one of the parties, I also coauthored a brief in this litigation for social scientists.]

In both of these cases, there are a couple significant questions of whether they were brought in a fashion that satisfies all the requirements of Article III of the Constitution for the federal courts to properly have jurisdiction over those cases. Thus, there is a very real possibility that one or both cases could be dismissed without any decision on the merits of the case.

However, if the Court does reach the merits, the consequences of the decisions could be extraordinary.

One is U.S. v. Windsor. Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA) defines marriage for purposes of federal law (such as federal taxes, immigration, and Social Security benefits) as the union of one man and one woman. In Windsor, the Court is considering whether Section 3 violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. If it does, then all federal marriage benefits can now be obtained by homosexual couples and likely polygamous families as well (both native to the U.S., and those seeking to immigrate to this country from Muslim nations where polygamy is legal).

The final big case is nothing short of historic. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution confers the right for any consenting adults to marry. If so, then traditional-marriage laws will be struck down nationwide in the 38 states where they currently exist, and all persons in every state will be able to enter into either homosexual or polygamous marriages. The case directly involved homosexual couples, but if the right is declared to be any union of consenting adults, then if three or more adults all consented to marry each other they would likely have the right to do so.

The Fifth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are center-stage this week. Given that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, school children for generations to come in America will read in their history books about what the Supreme Court does this week, one way or the other. » Full Article

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LGBT ACTIVIST: IT’S A “NO‑BRAINER THAT THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE SHOULD NOT EXIST

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“FIGHTING FOR GAY MARRIAGE GENERALLY INVOLVES LYING ABOUT
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A 2012 speech by a gay marriage activist has gone viral, with many pointing out an idea that some have believed is at the core of the activist movement to get gay marriage legalized at the federal level. On radio, Glenn played the audio of Masha Gessen claiming that the fight for gay marriage is about redefining the traditional family and that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. Glenn played the shocking audio on radio this morning.

“In a speech just given by Masha Gessen, she is an author and outspoken activist for the LGBT community. She says that many supporters of traditional marriage, what they have speculated for years, she says that it’s true: The push for gay marriage has less to do with the right to marry. She says it’s about diminishing and eventually destroying the institution of marriage and redefining the traditional family,” Glenn said.

In her speech, Gessen told the crowd:

I agree, it’s a no‑brainer that we should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no‑brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist.

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That causes my brain some trouble, and part of it why it causes me trouble is because fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there, you know, because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change and it should change. And again I don’t think it should exist. And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out 30 years ago.

Glenn said that her argument shows the progressive agenda with gay marriage is really about transforming the institution of marriage through the government. He said that once personal conscious and faith are replaced by a collective conscious through the government, it will no longer be acceptable for churches to only define marriage as between a man and a woman.

“Once the State says ‘This is the way it goes,’ that’s the way it’s going to go,” Glenn said.

He also said that this story also needs to be looked at in a broader context and beside other major stories in the news today. He specifically pointed out the Romeike family and the comments made by Melissa Harris-Perry as examples of progressives looking to fundamentally transform the definition of family and the role that parents play in their children’s lives.

Glenn did say that he had no problem with Gessen and appreciated her honesty.

Glenn gave his own views on gay marriage, which boil down to the idea that anyone can marry anyone they choose. However, he doesn’t want his church or any church to be forced to recognize gay marriage if it’s inconsistent with their beliefs. He warned that once government defines marriage, faith and churches are taken out of the equation.

“I know where I get the value from my marriage, and I get it from my faith and from my God. It is a contract, a covenant between me and my spouse with God. That’s what marriage is,” Glenn explained, “The question we should be asking ourselves is why is government defining marriage? Why is government even in the marriage business? It shouldn’t be in the marriage business because once it’s in the marriage business, then it chooses. And once it chooses, well, now you’ve got something else going on. Now your church is not going to not be able to marry gay couples.” » Full Article With Comments

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