We are always hearing liberals and Neo-Cons screaming about the Separation of Church and State: the liberals say God has no place in the public square while Neo-Cons seem to believe that while the church must be separate from government, government must have its own place in the church via the 501(c)3 tax code. I submit to you this is a falacy: it is a lie and it must end. Take this for example. There is an institution that is grounded on Biblical principles that is literally thousands of years old. This institution is called marriage. What is marriage exactly? The answer is simple. There are two institutions that God ordained in the Bible, and those are the family and church. Marriage is the bedrock and foundation of the family, and the family like it or not is the foundation and heartbeat of civil government. If you have irresponsible citizenry than how can you expect to have responsible government? It simply doesn't work. Where does one learn to be a responsible mother or father? Most people used to learn that at church. Church brings about correction at the feet of God's man as well as study of Scripture. Now however because of the unholy intrusion and even dominance of government into the church anything considered "controversial" is strictly off limits and taboo. Allow me to give you an example:
"He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24)
"Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell." (Proverbs 23:13-14)
When is the last time you have heard your preacher deliver a message on the correction of your child(ren)? Or more to the point when it comes to the topic of this article, marriage? Marriage was created by God to be a union (marriage means union) between one man and one woman. Now don't get me wrong, many men in the Bible in the Old Testament had several wives and all it did was bring them grief. Just look at David and Solomon. Let's see what Scripture says shall we?
(Genesis 2:18 KJV)
(18) And the Lord God said, {It is} not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
(Genesis 2:24 KJV)
(24) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
(Ephesians 5:22-33 KJV)
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so {let} the wives {be} to their own husbands in every thing. (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife {see} that she reverence {her} husband.
Let me be clear, this article has nothing to do with preaching Christianity to my readers. The point of these verses is to show that in the realm or marriage the church, not the State has jurisdiction. The government has NO RIGHT to dictate marriage After all there is a Separation of Church and State right? I mean if the church is not to get involved in maters of government (which is a lie by the way) then the government has no right to tell us who we can or can't marry. The idea of a license from the government to allow a preacher, priest, rabbi, or imam to marry anyone is insulting and an overreach or authority. You however will find very few preachers willing to take on these issues because they are gutless cowards araid of offending the IRS and lose the 501(c)3 tax break. They want those thirty pieces of silver! I'll lose on this. Please tell me where in the Constitution it says anything about the Separation of Church and State? I'll save you some trouble, it doesn't! The First Amendment however has quite a bit to say about religion and the government:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Nowhere do I see in that text government having the power to define marriage. Government has no right, power, or authority to dictate marriage at all, and I'm not bound by the 501(c)3 so I'll say what odds are your preacher is to scared to say: GOVERNMENT GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR CHURCHES, OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR BEDROOMS!!!!!
Lastly maybe Patrick Leahy and the Neo-Cons who wrote the Defense of Marriage act should actually read the Constitution. They did after all swear and oath to preserve and defend it. The new dust-up in Washington is a joke. How can we be a free people when we have the powers that be telling us how to raise our children and who we can or can't marry and then require a license to do so? Could you imagine George Washington to be required to get a license to marry his wife Martha? Yeah, me either.
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