Same Sex Mariage - Religious Viewpoint

My View on SSM from a Religious Viewpoint.




Mormons are Christians just with a lot more detail.



Most, if not all the religious questions can be answered by referring to the ultimate queries. Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?



God has told us to love the sinners and hate the sin. He has also stated that same sex marital relations are a sin.



We came from our real home. From our heavenly parents’ bosoms, so to speak, looking up to them and receiving guidance like babes learning how to walk. We saw all that our Father and Mother had. We desired their abilities and wanted to achieve the same accomplishments. We learned all we could in that state. In order to advance any more we would need to be added upon. The material our selves were formed out of could not do what our Parents could do. So temporal matter, flesh and blood, were added to our spirits and souls were created. We now had the ability, with our free agency, to interact with physical items. We could experience a slew of emotions and our other senses were expanded.



We were sent to an Earth, away from celestial law¹ in order to become immune to our natural curiosity of these new negative choices/actions. We didn’t understand for ourselves why they were wrong. We only desired to remain in good graces because we were only told it was better that way. We were fish in a pond, and knew not what snow really was. We only heard about it and believed it was there because we were told.



The goal of any good parent to is send their children out of the nest with all the proper knowledge and training. The desire is to create successful progeny. Any psychologist worthy of their certificate, and even dog trainers can tell you that the proper rearing of children (puppies?) includes exposure to events of all kinds. In the case of a dog this includes the sound of a vacuum, and another animal like a cat. For people it is hot and cold, sweet and bitter, and righteous and evil. This empowers that young one to learn strength and determination against trials. The youth will be emboldened to reach their highest potential. Out of all of creation, humans were the only ones to be made in the image of God. What do you really think our potential can be? This is why we are here. To learn, for ourselves what works and what fails. We can have our own freedom to do what we must without having to defer to our Parents’ guidance on every little mundane issue. This is a small part of God’s power and Glory. He knows more then us. He is good, just, and we dire to be like that. We wanted it. We can have it. Everyone is dependent on those that came before us to bring us physically into this world, teach us what it’s all about, and to properly equip us with the tools to succeed.



Let us pause for a moment to include a bit of knowledge mixed with some theory about the rest of God’s Glory. In this way we can understand the Atonement a little better and know why it was so vitally important. God’s perfection means that he does not desire to commit sin. He has been properly immunized against it so much that it is abhorrent to him. Sin cannot stand to be with him, because it knows that God’s light outshines any effort sin may try to copy it. In order for us, the children, to be immunized as well we had to live it. We had to experiment with sin and find out precisely what it does. We can’t do that in the presence of our Father. Here on a world away from His we can. However, after being tainted with sin we can never go back. The glory would destroy us if we did. God’s power comes from the fact that we worship him. We, meaning all of creation, obey like ants obey the queen. Its natural and automatic. God tells the Red Sea to part, and the atoms making up that body of water ask “How far?” Creation obeys because we trust God so much. We know to the core of our souls that he will not steer us wrong. We know, down the strings of energy that makes us what and who we are, that YWHY is exactly who we want to follow. This is his Power. If he were to betray us, even a little, then reason to doubt would be there and we’d second guess his command and like dominoes the train would wall down. The plan would fall apart. Nephi said if this were to happen, God would cease to be God. But this is never going to happen. We know this. We trust implicitly. God has all power because we are the source of it. He is our Father because we chose him.



Because he cannot do anything unjust, not even forgive us for just one tiny mistake, and because he loves us so very much, a new element had to be introduced into the equation. To top it off this third ingredient had to be from the children that it would save. God couldn’t just give us a way out, cause that would be manipulating the structure and order would no longer be perfect. The children had to save themselves in some fashion. God and sin cannot be in the same space. But God had a perfect offspring. And we had to be allowed to sin, in order to move beyond it to our own perfections. Justice demands a balanced correction in order to even the scales. A perfect child, suffering the demands of justice because someone else chose wrong is worth an infinite amount more then an imperfect child suffering for himself, simply because it is no longer “justice”. It is just suffering for no cause. God then says “Imperfect beings can not enter.” And Christ says “I am owed justice. I suffered on behalf of these people.” God says “What do you desire as payment for the suffering you have had? Nothing will balance the scales, but make your wish.” And Jehovah replies with, “I want my brothers and sisters to share with me exaltation.” Then God says, “Make it so.” See how that works? Christ saves us, and God is still predictable and perfect, and orderly.



Knowing this, we now understand how that third question is answered. Christ wants us with him in the next life. He has, as the one who purchased our debt to justice, established the circumstances in which he will accept our payment. We must live our life according to his rules and commandments in such He demands that we reach our fullest potential, in this life only, where sin may occur with salvation still within reach. Otherwise, even Christ cannot save us because it would unbalance the scales and the Godhead cannot against its perfect nature.



The entire purpose of life is to propagate the species, bringing ALL of God’s children to this world. It is up to each generation to teach the next in proper behavior, to expose them to the good and the bad, and to instruct how to step away from the bad, to be immunize against a desire to sin. It is up to the imperfect beings here, to continue this entire plan. And it is the intent of this author to set the readers’ minds accordingly in order to state this:



Same sex marital relations of any sort cannot ever fulfill the ultimate purpose of life and mortal existence. Therefore it is unnecessary, wasteful of time and talents, and an abomination to God. I love the sinner. I hope and pray the individual reaches their fullest potential. I cannot support the sin in my home, or in my life. I will have no part of it. If an individual desires to discuss it, I will. If the individual does not want to hear my point of view then I will not speak of it. I will continue to be cordial, and maintain any friendship, but the act will not be tolerated in my life or home.





¹Celestial Law: a justice system in which sin cannot physically occur without immediate repercussions. The action of sin has an immediate reaction of enacted justice. Not even sinful thoughts can exist in Celestial Law.