MARRIAGE: TAKE A PEEK...

Thanks to columnist Lori Borgman for much of the material that I shall
present in this article.

Our nation is facing some difficult times. One of the areas of concern (by all means, not the only problem) is our view of marriage. Many are pushing for same-sex marriage. I am sure you have seen the lines of people on news reports getting joined in same-sex unions.

Take a look at some Scandinavian countries who long ago accepted such.
Marriage is so out of fashion in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, that those who choose to marry (the old-fashion way: One Man-One Woman), keep most of them secret, lest they be embraced.

In Scandinavia, marriage has ceased being a big event in young people's lives. While marriage once signaled the hallmark of maturity in the journey of life, today the mark of maturity is having a baby. Couples become an item, birth a child, live together for a year or so, then off to another soul-partner.

The majority of children, we are told, in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. It has resulted in an immense welfare state and state-run day care. Tax-payers attempt to fill the void of mom and dad-or of couples who have children having never tied the knot.

Our beloved country's link between marriage and family has been waning for a number of decades. We do not need to re-define marriage, we need to re-state truths that have long held this great country together. We have just noticed Scandinavia. Take a history lesson. Go back and see results of nations that gave way to ungodly practices. Read the history of the Roman Empire. If we would take a good look, we would quit trying to be Politically Correct, and return to marriage as God set it forth at the very beginning.

God did not make Adam and Jake; he made them: Male and Female. Adam's wife was a female. She was called woman. God made woman for the man. Not a man for a man; or woman for woman. As a nation, we will make a decision. We will decide for success or failure. Will we choose God-ordained union of one man and one woman, or will we give into the sexual grouping that the minority in our country is calling for today?

- Dan Carter