More Light Surprise

Back to the More Light dinner...

At one point, two men got up to receive an annual reward. They were a couple, both small in stature. After they had accepted the award, one of the men told the group how, eighteen years ago, they had been married into a covenant bond by a woman in the room. Though they had exchanged vows, their bond was not legally recognized. The man then asked the other to be legally bound, right there, before the rest of the group.

And so, before myself and the More Light community, the two men both signed the document of marriage, with their original pastor as the officiator, and two of the women that had been at the marriage eighteen years ago (one of whom was Jay's grandmother) as their witnesses.

Didn't expect that one did ya?

Neither did anyone in the room. The couple went to Jay's church and about half of the people in the room knew them, but no one had had any idea that they had been planning this.

The joy in the room was contageous. I just went to a wedding last weekend, and, though I knew the couple well, I was fine just sitting and smiling at them during the service. But this? This was a triumph. It was a celebration. People clapped and cheered. It was a covenant that was finally able to be carried out for those who had waited so long for it.

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I don't know what I think about gay marriage. I gave a speech in government about civil unions and I fully and most adamantly support civil unions. It is concerning the rights of a people group. They aren't getting their legal rights and they should. It's a matter of the state. Secular.

But with gay marriage, you add the God ordained factor in. Does God approve of a monogamous relationship in Him, no matter what it's form. The answer to that, I have not yet figured out.

What I do know is that those two men loved each other. I have yet to see a downside to loving. If they are to love one another, what better way to make the relationship acceptable to God than to covenant through His word.

I don't know what I think about gay marriage.
But I have to say I was clapping along with everyone else yesterday.