Same sex marriage: a government law would not nullify God’s law

DEAR Editor,

What we as individuals choose to do in the privacy of our homes is between us and God and if we do things contrary to His will then we are responsible to Him and no parliamentary legislation can change that.

For example: God said, “You shall not commit Adultery”, therefore, even if our government passed a law saying that adultery was legal, that law would not nullify God’s law. The same principal applies to marriage.

In the Bible, marriage has always been accepted as the union of a man and woman, that is how God designed it and that is how it has become entrenched in our society so children are born and ideally raised with a father and mother.

Changing the definition of marriage to be “the union of any two people” is tampering with God’s design and to comply with those changes would be devastating. Even words like “mother” and “father” would become illegal as they would be considered discriminatory.

The main problem is, of course, that we would be defying God.

People are all different and if there were no laws and commandments there would be utter chaos: just imagine our roads and streets if there were no road rules! The reason we elect governments is to have a group of people to sort out laws and regulations to control such behaviour and we abide by those laws, like it or not.

In the moral and spiritual field though, God, who created us, has instituted ten Commandments so there would not be chaos in that part of our lives either, and besides these commandments, God established rules that need to be observed and if they are not obeyed they bring God’s judgement upon us. Romans chapter 1 verses 18 to 32 in the New Testament (New Living Translation) is relevant to today’s discussion, for example, verse 26: “women indulged in sex with each other... and men did shameful things with each other”, and verse 32b says: “Worse yet, they encouraged others to do them too.” The details were put there for us to read, and as a lesson for us to learn. The outcome in that case was that God abandoned them to those things in disgust because they didn’t believe in Him.

By quoting these things I am not being judgemental in any way; in everything I write my aim is to clarify the New Testament teaching as simply as possible.

There is nothing wrong with two people of the same sex being good friends. This is actually quite normal with mother’s clubs, men’s sheds, and friends playing golf together, etc, but to indulge in intimate sexual relations is to defy God’s wishes whether the Government says it is okay or not.

And if you or I vote in favour of “same sex marriage” we are defying God. Even if it was a secret ballot. Nothing we do is hidden from God so please be careful to make the right decision.

Tom Volkofsky, Dubbo