So New Zealand has just become the 13th country in the world to legalize same-sex mirage. For those of you who think that I cannot spell the word marriage, I really can. In fact I just did it. No, the “mirage” thing is deliberate. For that is what New Zealand legislators have just introduced. It isn’t marriage. Call it what you like but it isn’t marriage. Go ahead, pretend that up is down and down is up if you like. Believe it to be true if you really want. It won’t make the slightest bit of difference to the direction of gravity. Go ahead and pretend that a union consisting of two wives or of two husbands is marriage if you want. Believe it to be true with all your heart if that’s what takes your fancy. It won’t make the teensy-weensiest bit of difference to what marriage actually is. And that’s because marriage is defined by God, and not by a group of silly postmodern power worshippers sitting in a parliament in New Zealand.
What New Zealand has introduced is same-sex mirage: from a distance it looks a little bit like marriage – two people, a ceremony, a ring and all that – but on closer inspection it turns out to be merely an illusion.
(Warning: the next paragraph contains heavy use of sarcasm)
What I don’t understand is why it is that after decades where the numbers of people getting married have steadily fallen, the numbers of divorces have reached epidemic proportions, cohabitation is the norm, and where young people have been taught to scorn marriage – a lifelong covenantal bond – as “just a piece of paper”, that suddenly everyone’s really really keen on marriage. I really really don’t understand how this amazing turnaround has happened.
You’d think that at least some of the younger generation might be able to smell something fishy going on here. “Why is it,” you’d think they might ask, “that after being told that marriage is outdated, pointless, stifling drudgery by the media and the state all my life – why is it that suddenly they all think it’s a really great idea?” Well just in case you are a young person who has been told all your life that marriage is outdated, pointless, stifling drudgery by the media and the state and you can’t quite understand how they’ve suddenly all become very keen supporters of marriage, here is the answer:
The state and the media have not suddenly become all enthusiastic about marriage. If they had done that, they would be campaigning for the repeal of all the easy divorce laws and for proper sanctions for those who commit adultery. But they’re not doing that, are they? Maybe there’s another reason then. Is it at all possible that they do still believe that marriage is outdated, pointless, stifling drudgery, and that they are just using the homosexual cause to bring about its demise?
“How can that be so?” you ask. “These people seem so genuine in their desire to see marriage extended to homosexuals. Surely that is evidence that they are trying to preserve marriage, not destroy it.”
Okay so here’s the deal. When I begin to see those who have campaigned for marriage rights to be granted to same-sex couples beginning the campaign against the ease of which the covenantal marriage union can now be dissolved, when I hear them speaking out against promiscuity and cohabitation, and when I read them condemning adultery in the way the 7th commandment does, then I’ll review things. Until that day, I’ll continue to have my doubts about their genuineness in all this folly, and I will continue to label these unions by the only appropriate name I can give to them: same-sex mirage.
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