My husband has a gay niece. She lives in a state where “gay marriage” is not yet “legal” yet the case wherein the Supreme Court ruled “unconstitutional” the ban on “gay marriage” in several states, also included my state Virginia. My husband’s mother, a professing Christian informed us of this niece’s intent to come to VA to marry her girlfriend, and when I asked what his mother intended to do, he told me she said “I will support her”. My husband and I will not attend. I don’t think God will look lightly upon the choice of a professing Christian who claims to uphold the Biblical definition of marriage, to attend a sham of so-called “marriage” in support of a niece or grand-daughter or sister or anyone else. I think that Christians must awake to the fact that the day has arrived now, where we will have to decide what side of the line we are going to stand on, and the Bible is clear about that as well:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matthew chapter 10).

To “support” this is to deny Christ, because it is to deny His Word and they are one and the same. It is nothing to do with how much we care about that person, it has to do with obedience to the Savior who died for our sin, and a Holy God, who is the one who designed marriage. I can love someone who is gay. But I cannot celebrate something that the Bible is so clearly prohibits.