it still seems to me there’s a double standard going on.
Here’s what I mean. Some years ago I received a Christmas letter from the head of an evangelical organization. About halfway through he shared that, sadly, he had gotten divorced that past year. But in the next paragraph he had great news: God had given him a new wife!
Well, maybe there were extenuating circumstances, maybe I shouldn’t judge””but it still irritates me how blandly Christians accept this sort of thing. It used to be that, if gay people were expected to live celibately, married people were expected, at least, to preserve marriage for a lifetime. Even if divorce was unpreventable, remarriage wasn’t assumed. That line about “What God has joined together, let no one put asunder” comes from Jesus himself. (Mark 10:8-9).
Gay marriage is only the last in a long series of shifts in sexual morality. Why didn’t premarital sex or cohabitation galvanize our attention, like this has? Where were the protests then? How did divorce and remarriage become about as frequent among Christians as in the general population?
Read it all and she now has a follow up post there.
She is correct. It would be lovely to see on these pages criticism of a sin that the writers have an outside chance of actually committing. I am totally opposed to the concept of gay “marriage” but I get disgusted reading religious blogs which heatedly condemn homosexuals but will let posts on divorce go unread/uncommented. The whole point of what TEC and the other mainline denominations have successfully done is divert us away from the central issue of Biblical interpretation/orthodoxy and have us arguing about the presenting issue of “gayness”. Every time we condemn sin we will never commit and fail to condemn Sin, the devil chuckles.
Very true. Sexual sin is sexual sin. All are worthy of condemantion and homosexual sin is one of many. On the other hand is is the one sin has asked the Church to declare it as non-sin and openly bless it.