Why Christians Can and Should Support the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality.
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision now makes same-sex marriage the law of the land which Christians can and should support. Here’s why. First, Christians can support same-sex marriage because there is nothing anti-Christian about it. Some Christians speak of marriage as if there is a clear, consistent, unchanging biblical model. For example, i n a statement issued by Ronnie Floyd of the SBC and signed by 16 past presidents they affirmed, among other things, “What the Bible says about marriage is clear, definitive, and unchanging. We affirm biblical, traditional, natural marriage as the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant for a lifetime. The Scriptures’ teaching on marriage is not negotiable.” The problem, however, which more Christians are coming to see, is that there simply is no “clear, definitive, and unchanging” biblical view. Consider how polygamy was practiced throughout the biblical world without a single bible verse condemning ...