Hello, McFly?

You may remember the old movie Back to the Future. The premise of the film was that Marty McFly (Michael Fox) went back in time from 1985 to 1955. He then encountered his parents in the happy days of the 50’s. It might do us all some good to go back in time to get our perspective straight.

Imagine if we went back to 1955 and asked a few people if marriage should be between a man and a woman. They would probably look at us in disbelief and say “what else”? Well in our “enlightened” age we know that it can mean something quite different. And who knows what it will mean in the future if we keep going down this road.

Proposition 102  states that marriage is between a man and a woman. Why is that important? Because courts in Massachusetts and California have taken it upon themselves to redefine marriage to include same sex couples. We must first understand where marriage came from before we try to redefine it. In Genesis, the chapter in the Bible that begins “In the beginning”, God established marriage when He said that a man should leave his mother and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. You have probably heard this scripture quoted at weddings that you have attended. So if you are going to redefine marriage you are changing what God designed.

Opponents of prop 102 have tried to turn Say Yes to Marriage into an anti-gay issue. This is not about homosexuality, it is about marriage. The way the proposition is worded in the ballot is also deceptive as it implies that voting 'no' will keep the marriage laws that we currently have in place. The problem with this is that the courts could easily redefine marriage as they have in other states such as Massachusetts and California.

God designed men and women differently. He did it with purpose so that we would complete one another, physically, mentally and emotionally, this is the one flesh relationship (marriage) that He introduced to us in Genesis.  Voting yes for proposition 102 simply affirms that marriage is between a man and a woman. I encourage you to Say Yes to Marriage.