What God Has Joined Together

As the courts are striking down traditional marriage laws in state after state, it seems that the national debate is over regarding what constitutes marriage. However, since marriage comes from God, I am not persuaded by the court's opinion nor do I care about the outcome of a national debate. What I care about and what persuades me is God's Word. 

While I could lay out a comprehensive argument based on Old and New Testament statutes, biblical examples and even judgments rendered in Scripture, I really don't want to lay out a defensible argument based on scholarship and tied to human reasoning. I would just like to point out to you God's Word as expressed by Jesus Christ himself as the model for marriage and the final and authoritive word on the subject. You'll have to decide if you will accept His authority or not. 

In response to the Pharisees regarding the sanctity of marriage, Jesus goes back to God's creative and purposed design: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female ,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate" (Matt 19:4-6).

I only want to point out the antecedent to "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife" is "the creator made them male and female."  The reason or design of God for marriage was to couple a man and a woman into "one flesh" (a spiritual/sexual relationship).  Anything other is more than, less than or other than God's design. 

Jus' Sayin'. Actually, just sharing Jesus' word on the subject.