In this article from CNN, New York to recognize gay marriages, we learn that "The governor's legal counsel told state agencies in a May 14 memo to revise policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in California and Massachusetts as well as Canada and other countries that allow gays and lesbians to marry, said Erin Duggan, the governor's spokeswoman."
New York doesn't actually marry gay couples, but they are going to recognize the marriages from other states. From information in the article, Massachusetts, "New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey and Connecticut permit civil unions, while California has a domestic-partner registration law."
As you know if you've been reading this site, I don't mind telling you what I think even if I'm pretty certain that no one will like it. This will be much the same. You see, as Christians, it is not for us to make immorality illegal. It is for us to try to evangelize the true message of God. Becoming so involved in the U.S. secular government by trying to impose the laws of God on the laws of the country is overstepping our bounds and is, again, not a way to win converts. People will always sin no matter what we make illegal. You will always sin though you might be a Christian. Should we find all the ways that you and I sin and make them illegal in the U.S.?
Furthermore, Jesus died for all our sins, not just the sins of Christians and certainly not just for the sins of those who sin the least or only partake in a particular types of sins.
Matthew 7:1-31Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged,and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
New York doesn't actually marry gay couples, but they are going to recognize the marriages from other states. From information in the article, Massachusetts, "New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey and Connecticut permit civil unions, while California has a domestic-partner registration law."
As you know if you've been reading this site, I don't mind telling you what I think even if I'm pretty certain that no one will like it. This will be much the same. You see, as Christians, it is not for us to make immorality illegal. It is for us to try to evangelize the true message of God. Becoming so involved in the U.S. secular government by trying to impose the laws of God on the laws of the country is overstepping our bounds and is, again, not a way to win converts. People will always sin no matter what we make illegal. You will always sin though you might be a Christian. Should we find all the ways that you and I sin and make them illegal in the U.S.?
Furthermore, Jesus died for all our sins, not just the sins of Christians and certainly not just for the sins of those who sin the least or only partake in a particular types of sins.
Matthew 7:1-31Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged,and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
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