In faint opposition to what is becoming de rigueur among mainline “Protestant” church bodies, on July 9 the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. narrowly maintained the Bible’s definition of marriage–between one man and one woman. The affirmation of the biblical doctrine received a mere 51% of the votes.
The church body also took a step closer to ordaining homosexual clergy.
The issue here, beloved readers, is only partly a rejection of biblical authority, and only partly a rejection of those passages in the Bible that condemn same-sex sexual activity.
The primary offense is against this passage (Gen. 1:28; see also Gen. 9:1):
Be fruitful and multiply.
Until Protestants recognize and reaffirm this primary purpose and reason for God creating us male and female and as the grand “setup” for His institution of Holy Marriage, one continually will see the inevitable pull and downward spiral of confusion in the Church about sex, marriage, and the ordination of clergy.
Again, it is inevitable due to the integral nature of our embodied-ness as male and female, and church bodies that think they’re immune by upholding the authority of Scripture and condemning same-sex sexual activity while ignoring this passage are only kidding themselves.
