I believe that marriage is ordained by God, and is between one man and one woman for life

So, like, all those people in the Bible who had multiple wives and concubines and slept with their wive's servants...they were doing what, exactly?

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Solomon...you know, those men of God.

When did God ordain the one-man, one-woman bit? Where is that written in the Bible? Please provide a quote. And thanks!

Adam and Eve, try that. First people on Earth. Pretty good example.

No one slept with concubines or servants (or had multiple wives) without consequence, as is plainly seen.

lol, your strong conviction is full of hatred.

You are not required to post in this LJ- if you think that it's hateful, feel free to not read it.

Thank you. Someone finally had the balls to make something like this.

This is so awesome! Thank you for making this!

:D

but why should marriage be available to only a man and a woman because of the rules of "god" and the beliefs of the catholic church? not everyone believes in that :-[

I really could care LESS what the roman church teaches. it's a pagan cult with a "christian" face on. I realize not everyone agrees with the position but I have the right to display my belief in a userinfo page that people are perfectly free to ignore. :)

Hi there. I accidently stumbled onto your journal through a friends lj and love your marriage icon. I'm going to snagged it if you don't mind. Thank you for posting this for us!

Marriage is the coming together of a man and a woman and it is a holy union in the eyes of God.

By all means, take and share! Thank you for your comment! ♥

You all are small minded little fuckshits. You realize that? Marriage is just that. Marriage. God has no say in what goes on. Look at all the marriages now. Look at all of the straight people. See them. Domestic disputes, men raping their wives. You really think that God compelled them to do that? You stupid mother fuckers. Why would you want to protect a right that should be a right for EVERYONE? You are nothing more than little bugs that deserved to be squashed because you actually think that someone might be happier than you. But here's a tip. You can pull the dildo's out of your asses, give them back to your moms, and thank her for letting you use it.

i was a leadership and ministry major in college, and i have a strong christian background. however, i personally think that marriage should be up to the two people entering into it, not the government, and not based on religious teachings since we live in a secular nation with separation of church and state.

and even though i believe marriage should be open to everyone, i don't think that cursing at each other is going to solve anything. pensive1 is totally entitled to his beliefs whether we agree with them or not. part of our great nation is knowing how to respectfully disagree.

pensive1, you seem like a cool guy that i would get along really well with. i hope that someday you'll see that gay people aren't all that different from straights.

mariska, you might want to rethink your methods of reshaping people's views. i'd venture to say that if anything, you're hurting the cause.

I like this, and I am posting it in my journal. Thank you! :) God Bless!

-Summer

You're absolutely welcome. :)

I have been getting more comments on this lately, do you mind if I ask how you stumbled across it?

The only thing to say is "Rock On."

Thank you. ♥

wow, way to be close-minded.

wow way to post ANONYMOUSLY.

Personally I think that ya'll just need to let people love how they love, and if two women, or two men wanna get married, I say MORE POWER TO YA!!! I don't think that ANYONE has a right to say shit about it.. It may be against the lords ways, but its not you who is gonna "pay" for it later right? So let us the HOMOSEXUALS live our lives and stop hate'n, cuz no matter anyways times will change, and so will the laws, and then what?? So yeah my name is Stacey and I'm ALLLLL ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE!!!!

Peace and Love to All!!!

Amen to that :]

i like this thing even though im not fully sure what its about =)

Thanks a million for making this. Although I don't agree with the parallels of marriage and the Lord (Pagan here), I do wholeheartedly believe that life-long, heterosexual, monogamous marriage is the primary base of our culture and should be preserved, protected and promoted by our Constitution.

It's about to go on my userinfo- thanks for making this!

Sure thing :)

Personally I think love is love, and should be respected and tolerated with out consentration on what the gender is. I don't think God is going to damn you because you fell in love with someone who has the same genitalia as you, it's personalities that in the end really, actually, fall in love.

"Thirdly, homosexuals aren't that much different than heterosexuals, you're right. They practice alternative sexual habits."

I mean sure, that's right, but it's not like they JUST have sex, they care and love each other. They have a relationship that more then friendship, it shouldn't MATTER that it's between two people with a similar anotomy! They should have the right to have a binding lawful relationship based on their love and caring for each other just as much as everyone else.

Btw realqueenbetty I'm going to use that icon in my userinfo. :D

*sigh* I can't believe I'm commenting on this... but here goes. I'm curious as to your views of this. What about people who are agnostic or don't believe in God at all? They are still allowed to get married in the US. Marriage can be *just* civil in this way - a heterosexual couple can go to a courthouse and HATE god and still be married...

This is one of the main reasons I support same sex marriage. Marriage in the US by LEGAL definition is one of common assets, rights to inheritance of property if the spouse dies, right to make medical decisions for the spouse if the other is incapable of doing so -- it's a legal union, not a spiritual/religious one.

Aside from that fact, if people did want to marry in the Christian faith, I would think it was fine. I am a Christian - I belong to the United Church of Christ. Strong Christian values keep me be from discriminating against anyone. Jesus loved and allowed rights for people that were at his time, the outcasts of society. He accepted everyone for who they were. I believe the spirit of Christianity is to accept everyone's diversity. I believe God and Jesus anticipated this happening in the future - all the hate that (you say you are not being hateful and I believe you, but I just mean in the world) is going on right now in the world - and that it's a major obstacle for humanity to overcome. God put challenges in our way to overcome them, to become more loving people. I don't think your message expresses this.

Wow I assumed you were Christian... (just looked @ your profile). Sorry. But my statement remains besides the Jesus thing - I think God did mean for us to overcome that obstacle. A culture of full love, forgiveness, and acceptance is what I think he wants humanity to strive for.

i love this icon. God made adam and EVE not adam and steve. :)

I don't know you (besides the comment on the fic) and even though I don't agree with you I will say that I'm glad you've got the balls to post this. Even if I'm on the other side it seems like it's become totally okay to persecute someone for their beliefs just like it used to be when people who did believe in gay marriage were the one getting pelted.

Just sayin', i think it's cool.

Thanks for commenting -- live and let live, yanno?