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Opposed to gay marriage            6/8/12

 

Sirs,

Regarding ongoing press reports about 'gay marriages' let us clear the air clear about these silly mergers.  No, Churches won't be forced to conduct these unions but be assured  also that many more people in Scotland will reject them entirely and oppose them vehemently, even if legislation is passed.  Beware and bewarned.  The majority of Scottish MSP’s may very well be supportive of same-sex marriage – and shame on them –but that is not the view of the morally sober Scottish public.  The Government cabinet in Edinburgh know that all very well, having received nearly 80,000 responses to their consultation document.  If this was a staggering number, then more staggering still was another statistic: this was some three times more than, wait for it, the consultation responses on Scottish Independence.  They would never have believed such a calamity would happen.  But it has and they better wake up to reality.                                                                                                    

No wonder they are indecisive, as more than 2 to 1 of people in Scotland, the nation that the Government are supposed to represent, are totally opposed to this bizarre union.  In simple English what the people of Scotland are saying is that only proper marriage between one man and one woman is right and same-sex ‘marriage’ is wrong, wrong, wrong.  Does the Scottish Government honestly think they have a Divine warrant to rewrite the law on proper marriage without unraveling hundreds of years of law and culture?  No they haven’t.  This marriage union was ordained and sanctioned by God at the beginning of time, with the stipulation it can never be altered or redefined.                                           

The Government has also come to realize that legalities will overwhelm them, unless they take heed of the warnings to change course now and alter direction.  At the moment it is sailing, just like the Titanic, on a rendezvous with disaster.                                                                                            

As a Missionary of the gospel, and Christian evangelist, I wish to place it formally on record that no law or public opprobrium will prevent me from publicly preaching against the sins of sodomy and unnatural union and will continue to preach publicly against it, and every other sin, which the Word of God condemns.  Furthermore, I will never solemnise nor recognise same-sex unions, whatever form or name is given to them, as they are a violation of God’s sacred law.  Christians (at least those who are genuine) and non-Christians also, will endorse and concur with this.                                                           

It is certainly not politicians in the Scottish Government, lawyers in court or judges with black robes that have the final decision on the union of marriage, it is God. He has pronounced judgement and His verdict is final.  Wise is the man, or woman, who is more concerned about what He thinks than what men say: “We ought to obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5v29)                                                               

It is high time Captain Alex Salmond, and all on board his Holyrood ship, began to throw his same-sex ‘marriage’ ideas overboard before he and they collide with disaster of calamitous ruin.  It is quite evident that none of them are fit to run a corner shop, never mind a nation of some 6 million people.

Mr Donald J Morrison

85 Old Edinburgh Road

Inverness