This news feature from the US gives an insight into why some conservative evangelical Christians oppose marriage equality an why they will never support it:
America’s acceptance of gay unions is responsible for the mortgage crisis, Linda Harvey of the Christian conservative group Mission America claims.
In an op-ed titled The Sin-Based Family posted at the group’s website, Harvey argues that gay marriage has weakened America’s foundation.
“Families constructed around sexual deviance stand in defiance of God’s eternally-revealed truth. No matter how ‘conservatively’ and faithfully two men or two women operate as they consider themselves a marital union, the structure is still in defiance of God’s created order of male and female as the framework for marriage,” Harvey writes.
Unlike a straight couple, two men, Harvey says, cannot “consummate” their relationship, which means they cannot be unified “structurally.”
“Just as a child is far less likely to suffer abuse in the home of his/her married, heterosexual parents, so the opposite is true. Where the structure is sin-based, other sins are more likely to scurry in through the cracks. Substance abuse and self-destruction accompany sexual deviance. And some of this means poor decisions about finances.”
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