President Barack Obama decided last week that his administration would no longer support the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman.
DOMA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, because some Americans wanted to have same-sex marriages. DOMA prevented the federal government from recognizing the validity of same-sex marriages, in addition to forbidding any federal benefits to same-sex couples.
Obama has changed his views on DOMA -- several American human rights groups have been pressuring the president to destroy it -- and he now believes that LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) individuals are human beings who need to be treated as equally as heterosexuals. Indeed, Obama's decision to abandon DOMA is a sad decision for American society and morality.
In fact, the Rev. Arthur Evans -- head of the National Black Church Initiative which represents some 34,000 African American churches in the United States -- said last week that the president has "failed to uphold Jesus' teaching" that marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
Rev. Evans also said that Obama "has violated the Christian faith and black churches must now reassess their extraordinary support for him." These are rather harsh words directed at Obama for abandoning DOMA -- even more so, when one considers the fact that they were stated by a black religious leader against America's first black president.
In describing marriage, the Bible clearly states that marriage is a union of one man and one woman: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall be one flesh." (Genesis - 2:24)
Since President Obama now believes that it is no longer necessary to enforce DOMA -- thus allowing same-sex marriages to occur without a federal law to prohibit them -- we can expect American society and morality to deteriorate significantly in the ensuing years.
The fact is that same-sex marriages are unnatural and contrary to Christian doctrine. This being the case, same-sex marriages must not be allowed to take place in Christian Churches.
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If the government wants to do civil unions, I see no problem with that. I'm not sure why the government is even involved in defining marriage. Personally, I view marriage as a sacred sacrament between a husband and wife.
ReplyDeleteHere is an interesting article that seems to have an Orthodox Christian perspective...
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/AnonymousStruggle.php
"and he now believes that LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) individuals are also human beings who need to be treated as equally as heterosexuals."
ReplyDeleteThis is a very disturbing statement. It seems that you are saying LGBT individuals are NOT human beings. Maybe if you remove the word "also" it would be less incendiary.
I removed the word "also" after LGBT individuals are... It was not originally meant to say LGBT individuals are not human beings, but rather that LGBT individuals must also be treated equally as heterosexuals, because under DOMA, they were not treated equally.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the lack of clarity in the original statement.