It’s a civil union, not marriage

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, April 4, 2004

Before there was a government or any civil authority upon the earth, there was the state of marriage. God established and defined marriage as the holy union between a man and a woman. It began with Adam and Eve, and it continues today.

Once governments were established, they acknowledged this union by recognizing it as a legal union for governmental purposes. Let’s understand this point: government neither established nor defined marriage. God does not sanction the union of the same sex. It is not holy.

The term holy is easier to understand as “being used for what it what designed for.” The union of a man and a woman is holy because that is how God designed it. Since government never defined marriage in the first place, it does not have the authority to redefine what marriage is. Government has the responsibility to see to the rights of every individual regardless of their morality, and that would include the union of same sex, but government cannot call it a marriage. It would be like the government saying that a bar mitzvah is now going to be called a baptism. Marriage is the God-sanctioned union of a man and a woman, period. Civil union is the legal relationship between couples of the same sex as acknowledged by the government, period. Do not get the two confused.

Government, do your job, but don’t violate the sanctity of our Judo-Christian observance of marriage!

Snohomish