A Tale of Two Families

A Tale of Two Families

The real issue in this matter of gay marriage revolves around what is accepted as a family. No two homosexuals or lesbians, ever have or ever will generate or beget a child. Not in the way it has been done NORMALLY, that is, outside of so called modern science/medicine. The question is: because some gays are willing to adopt children, or to conceive them by an extra "marital" heterosexual partner, or by conceive them by an artificial insemination, do these modern "options" mean that the resulting relationships are families? They are not, not in the historic, traditional, or classic sense, nor in the Judeo Christian sense. They are a "new and novel" invention. Very new. Have such things been around for more than a very few decades? Probably so, but not in great numbers, nor in open society. Should our government allow for them to enjoy the same privileges and powers granted (heterosexual) families?

How I long for a King, for the KING, my King : Jesus, to return. He will set our lives straight in every way.

People are so enamored by democracy, the rule of the people. It does nowhere exist in so pure a form as a simple majority rule. It used to be known that most people were (and are) not well educated enough, nor noble (moral) enough to make decisions for any except their own children. So they looked to the elders, the wise, often the aged, and usually the men to guide them. Things got along well enough, except when the wicked were allowed to rule. Today we attempt this with our many elections. Yet the peoples of the world are generally not able to choose wise and good enough leaders, men or women, and when the wise and good are elected or crowned it seems they are not long endured.

President Bush is no perfect man. But those who elected him by a very slim majority in most every state did hope, I think, for better than what he has been able to accomplish. But our muslim enemies struck at that possibility of good and just change so quickly, it made the collective conservative head spin. The administration had already been slowed assuming power by the democrat challenge to the election.

But it is clear is that there is no great mandate for change at all. Half the people seem to wish cradle to grave socialism, which is just making government into a diverse plantation, a perpetual baby sitter, and the other conservative half seem to wish freedom to simply continue to exploit the power of private enterprise. The Christian right seems deluded into thinking that the government, if led by constitutional constructionists might establish the kingdom of God on earth. It won't, it could not, IMHO. That is being done already by Jesus, where persons are learning to obey God and the Gospel.

So that is the joy in the midst of our suffering the madness that pervades the peoples of the world and the USA. Gay marriage, Abortion, pornography and prostitution, addictions: drug/alcohol/tobacco/sex, child abuse, murder, and mayhem of every sort, and a religious madness on every side, false doctrine, jihad, false gods and false prophets, none will stop the Lord from completing His eternal good will. God will have a remnant, a small family of saints, willing to rend their hearts and not their garments, to be despoiled and abused by the merciless, ridiculed by the elites, scorned by the pagan religious, and spat on by the churlish. Eventually in the USA they may also be arrested by the government and made slaves, or crucified. But this remnant will be elevated to the height and glory of His throne in victory over their own carnality, their sins, and over all their enemies. The wonder and the glory is that these things will drive the sincere closer to God and farther from sin than the ease the industrial church has known for the last hundred years. © 2007 David Severy

Gloria Adios