Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage

Vermont just became the 4th state to legalize Gay "marriage".

 

It's time for the church to take back marriage, at least for Christians. The church opened the door for this back in the 18th and 19th centuries by allowing the State to define and regulate marriage. Before that marriage was a private affair. New York State didn't even keep records of marriages until 1880. Once the State started regulating marriage, it went downhill. Easy divorce was the first crack in the dam. The church had turned marriage over to the State, so it had no choice but to go along, even if reluctantly. Now Christians divorce at the same rate as non-Christians and no one says much against it, though in the Bible God says He "hates divorce".

 

The church should opt out of the State-regulated legal/civil marriage system and perform its own marriages with its own standards. Certainly the State won't recognize these marriages as legal or valid, but who cares what the State thinks. Half the country seems to live together without marriage with State approval, and the State is making a mockery of marriage.

 

The only reason to get a State-sanctioned marriage is to get government benefits. Christians could get a second State-sanctioned marriage if they want to do that, or better yet avoid State marriage altogether by utilizing the Civil Unions laws!

 

The way the government is creating money and going into debt, State benefits aren't going to be worth the paper they are printed on in a few years anyway. Christians really need to start taking care of their own, as the Amish do.