Sunday, July 01, 2007
Majority In Australia Support Gay Marriage?
- (Sydney, Australia) A public opinion poll released Wednesday shows a major shift with most Australians now in favor of allowing same-sex couples to wed.
- Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said that gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to get married. Only 37 percent were opposed.
God's plan for sexuality
"So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
—Genesis 1:27 (NKJV)
The image of God is both male and female and is reflected in a godly union between male and female where the creative power of God, His life-giving, His self-giving and His moral nature are perfectly expressed. This is only possible in a heterosexual union.
When God created a partner for Adam He created Eve - not another Adam. This means that perfect partnership requires some level of difference as well as a level of similarity so great that Adam could cry out loudly, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh". Sexual intimacy between a man and a woman is the normal method of male/female bonding (emotionally and physically) because it corresponds to the design of our bodies and because it is the normal means which creates offspring.
If God had intended the human race to be fulfilled through both heterosexual and homosexual marriage, He would have designed our bodies to allow reproduction through both means and made both means of sexual intercourse healthy and natural. Homosexual anal intercourse carries a high risk of disease, this is recognized in Scripture where gay men are said to receive in their bodies the due penalty for their error (Romans 1:27).