I bring this up because recently there's been a news story where a woman in Kentucky decided that she was not going to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. Now, certainly she is free to do whatever she wants and whether or not she does her job is between her and her supervisor. However, she cited God's law as the authority for her to not issue gay licenses.
In the world that we live in, certainly we take some persecution for sharing Christ. We take some persecution as being Christians, but since our religion, our relationship with God, dictates that we are forgiving souls, we don't take any of that personal. We just figure that we are being criticized for the glory of God and that's okay with us and that's okay with God.
When you put a spotlight on yourself, and people can see you in a bigger light than which you normally are seen in, you have to expect certain things to come up. I mean, even in the Bible it says, "What's done in the dark will come out in the light." While Christians like myself applaud her efforts for denying to issue a gay license for marriage, well, some of us have a lot more to the story.
The licensing for a wedding is actually a state function and in my world, the Bible says, "Give to Caesar what is due Caesar." If the state is issuing licenses, that doesn't have anything to do with God and I say that because I want you to know that my tendency is to issue the gay licenses, even though I can applaud the statement that she's trying to make because, like her, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. This issue of a marriage being between a man and a woman is not a black-and-white issue. There are varying degrees of gray running the continuum of yes or no. The politicization of this issue is simply something that is being used by politicians to further their goals of being elected. To put more money into their coffers, to further divide the populace, because you know if you divide the populace, you can sell them anything.
In case you're wondering where this blog is going, I'll make it clear for you now. The point of this blog is not to criticize the woman for what she's doing, but the point of this blog is to have us, as extraordinary coaches, examine our own selves and see if there are paradoxes that exists in our life and do what we can to line up what we say with what we do. To line up what we say and do in one situation with what we say and do in every situation. This woman, now, has gotten herself under the microscope and things about her have come to light that make it clear that she has paradoxes in her life. Don't you be the one whose paradoxes are identified under the scrutiny of the world stage. Get in touch with your paradoxes and your contradictions right now.
Let's talk a little about hers. She says that she's a godly woman. She says that by the authority of God, she's not going to issue these marriage licenses. Now she's famous and she's on television and if that's what she wants, she has achieved her goal, but I suspect that this woman is serious about her assertion that marriage is between a man and a woman. I think that she is sincere in her contradiction, in her opposition, to such a thing. I really do. I think she was equally sincere when she got divorced twice and remarried. Now the Bible talks about what God has put together, let no man put asunder. Is that real or isn't it real? I think that when she gave birth to twins five months after getting divorced from her second husband and is with her first husband, I think that, too, is at odds with what the word of God says.
Those of us that are Christians just reading this blog, remember. Remember the most critical thing in the Bible. There are two critical things in the Bible. The number one critical thing in the Bible is to love your neighbor as yourself. Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all they heart, with all they mind, and with all they soul, and this is the first and great commandment. The second is like unto it which is to love your neighbor as yourself. No place in the Bible does it give us a license to criticize. Not only that, if you have read any of my other blogs, you will know that criticism and complaining do nothing except make you feel worse. Finally, the verse in the Bible that addresses this more than anything else, is to let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Refusing to issue a marriage license to a couple that has been certified by the state to be qualified to marry? Guess what. That is throwing a stone.
I hope I've given you some new things to think about in this blog. I hope I've given you some new conversation pieces in this blog. I certainly hope this blog has helped you and that you pass this blog along to someone you care about. I end this blog just like I end all the rest of them, which is have yourself a good time until the next time.
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