A Day of National Celebration

As Plastic as a Politician's Promise

Homosexuals are now "allowed" to "marry" in New Zealand whatever that may mean.  In an orgy of self-congratulation, the media have told us we must celebrate the moment.  They have done their best to lead by example.  But the cheering is a tad hollow.

What we need in New Zealand is some consistent, principled radicals.  Not the kind that swan around in Gucci sunglasses and sip lattes whilst pontificating on the state of education in a post-constructivist world.  We need radicals who are serious about human rights, not mere lip-servers.  And until we get them, there is not much reason to celebrate, for the "moment" is as ephemeral as pot smoke.

The hypocrisy in our society has a nauseous stench when it comes to marriage.
  We have legalised homosexual "marriage" as the latest banner to human rights, but it's all so self-serving and discriminatory.  What's so special about homosexuality that it should be granted a legalisation of marriage?  The arguments for the "reform" have turned around "true love" which should not be denied.  People who truly love and who genuinely want together have a right to marriage (whatever that might mean).  Actually, what the protagonists of homosexual "marriage" are after is social recognition and respect for their choices.  And that's perfectly understandable: everyone likes to be inside the tent, as it were. 

But what of other people in relationships who have "true love".  What of them?  Are we to continue to deny their lawful and true human rights?  Are we continue to discriminate?  In order to break down every barrier of unjust discrimination we are looking for true heroes and heroines.  We need real, principled radicals and social warriors who will stand forth and capture the prize. 

Let's take a couple of examples of the kind of more truthful radicals needed. 

• Our society needs a deeply loving brother and sister to apply for a marriage license. 
• We need a cluster of people who deeply love each other to apply for multi-valent marriage licenses (that is, the lawful right and recognition to be married to more than one person).
• We also need two sisters (or two brothers) who love each other and (for the sake of political theatre) express a desire to live together for the rest of their lives yet have forsworn sexual relationships, to apply for a marriage license. 

How on earth could the politicians, the pundits, the editorialists, and the media object?  Ah, well, they may--but the stench of self-serving, unprincipled hypocrisy would cloy the nostrils. 

We believe this latest idiotic and hypocritical disemboguement will ultimately serve to advance the Kingdom of God--but not in the ways that its protagonists intend.  It is going to be good for Christians and churches.  It will be a refining agent.  Once again we will be put to the question: do we seek the approval of men or of God?  Will be curry favour from Unbelief, or will be walk faithfully before our Lord?  As always happens, fellow travellers will fall by the wayside, true believers will bow before their Lord, enduring the insults of the in-crowd, and the Church will be the better for it. 

Secondly, it will put into sharper relief the difference between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world.  When marriage and families break down horrendous consequences follow.  We see it in our growing underclass in this country with each passing year.  Right now, the Commentariat is looking for an explanation in every other place than the plain and obvious.  But it is surprising how many ordinary people acknowledge the truth: families and marriage mean something and that something is vitally important to the well-being of society. 

In our societal maelstrom only the Christian faith provides defensible ground for marriage. Christianity grounds marriage in a covenantal bond--in promises, oaths, vows and obligations--firstly to God, then to spouse, then to children (should God grant them), and finally to society in general.  Without Christ, our eternal Lawgiver, marriage is not a sworn covenant to God, nor to spouse, nor to children, nor to society.  It is nothing more than an expression of human wilfulness, tolerable as long as convenient.  It is as plastic as a politician's promise.

The principles and ethics which have sanctioned homosexual "marriage" make marriage and family meaningless, subject to the passing whims of fashionable fancy and the lusts of carnal desire.  Unbelief now has no principles  upon which marriage can be defined and preserved.  They have gone.  It is only a matter of time before the smart radicals push the boundaries, expose society's hypocrisy, and ring the changes.