A group of 49 influential US Catholic and Evangelical figures have signed an eight-page declaration upholding biblical marriage and warning of the consequences of same-sex 'marriage' legislation.
Parody
The document from the Evangelicals and Catholics Together group, which includes megachurch pastor Rick Warren, acknowledges other challenges to biblical marriage but describes same-sex “marriage” as a “graver threat”.
The declaration states: “An easy acceptance of divorce damages marriage; widespread cohabitation devalues marriage.
“But so-called same-sex marriage is a graver threat, because what is now given the name of marriage in law is a parody of marriage.”
State property
“The law no longer recognizes the primordial, complementary natural roles of mother and father. The natural family as the fundamental context defining where we have come from and who we are is set aside," the declaration explains.
“The family becomes a creation of the state, and where the family is a creation of the state, children become, in important legal respects, the property of the state."
“Instead of freely accepting God's gift, we seek to dominate (and even alter) nature, constructing our own moral truths," the document adds.
“The result is a deceptive pseudo-freedom that degrades our humanity."
Falsification
The declaration also urges all Christians to defend the biblical definition of marriage and to not affirm same-sex 'marriages' politically.
“As Christians, we must state, unambiguously, that same-sex marriage contradicts the Gospel. Christians who wish to remain faithful to the Scripture and Christian tradition cannot embrace this falsification of reality, irrespective of its status in law.”
The declaration will be published in the March edition of First Things, a religious journal.
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