State-blessed sodomy

By now it’s old news that Vermont has legalized same-sex marriage, but for the sake of academic and intellectual honesty we should review the facts.

The primary document of interest in this case is the Church of England’s “Book of Common Prayer.” Since 1662 nearly every wedding in the English-speaking world has been modeled from the template given under the Prayer Book’s heading “The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony,” wherein we learn the three purposes of marriage: first for “the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and praise of God”; second as “a remedy against (sexual) sin”; and third to provide for “the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have the other.”

With these standards in hand, it is self-evident that so-called “same-sex marriage” is not. It cannot ever hope to pass the first two criteria given, and as for the third – whether or not it provides “the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have the other” – my homosexual friends leave me quite prepared to believe it fails there, too.

Someone will protest that “lots of heterosexual marriages fail those criteria, too!” True as that may be, you don’t destroy an institution just because it occasionally fails. George W. Bush was a failure of a president, but that doesn’t mean we should do away with the presidency.

Call it something else; call it “The State’s Blessing on Sodomy” (because that’s all it amounts to anyway). But it most certainly is not marriage, and does not have the blessing of God, who ordained marriage, and whose Judgment will fall on those who rebel against Him.