One Man One Woman

The President of the United States has regularly stated that his views on recognizing the publicly committed relationship of a same-sex couple as marriage was in a process of forming. He supported the extending of all civil rights to same-sex couples, but was not ready to align himself with the idea of calling theirs a marriage. Well, this week he crossed that line and did extend his support. Of course it has always been the religious community that rallied in defense of marriage. They held the signs and shouted the slogan “one man and one woman”. And they did so with a straight face for years. But, now the hypocrisy of the church has come back to bite it! It is certainly true that Jesus taught about marriage. And it is true that Jesus taught: “one man and one woman”. In fact he said: “whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery”. However, it has been quite some time since most of the Christian community has refused to allow remarriage; except upon the death of one’s spouse. Back then,any other second marriage would have then been labeled “living in a sinful relationship”. Today we have self-righteous people, (on their second and even third marriage), demanding that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman. How are we to be taken seriously? We turn our heads from what Jesus plainly calls adultery, to condemn the same-sex union as sinful. God deserves better than us hypocrites. And so does our society.