Secular marriage is the creation of a CONTRACTUAL relationship consisting of three parties: two people, regardless of biological sex, AND government, all subject to the State's contract law through the government licensing authority. Since government is the contractual licensing authority in secular marriage, it must, by law, allow every citizen legally eligible to enter into any legal contract by their consent , (without regard to the sex of the contracting parties), to enter into a secular marriage contract with whomever they choose; again, without regard to the sex of the contracting parties, according to State contract law. Hence, the government may at some time in the future actually arbitrarily determine secular marriage may include more than two people. In fact, it may, at some time in the future, REQUIRE more than two people."
Let the state accept and sanction all the perversion it wants. Does Matthew 19:6 say it is the State or God that joins man and woman in marriage? So, isn't it time for the Church to loose itself from under the unequal yoke with the state and take back its authority and oversight of the marriage covenant?
~ the Lutheran Watchman © 2015