Caffeinated Thought of the Day: Marriage Isn’t Simply a Religious Ordinance

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Over the last ten years or so we’ve seen a dramatic shift in how our nation views the institution of marriage. Using primarily the courts, those advocating same-sex marriage have won a series of victories that resemble something of a legal tsunami. I can understand the impulse of some Christians to suggest that we need to get the government out of marriage altogether. But marriage isn’t simply a religious ordinance, it’s also a civil union. It involves such things as paternity and property, and these are matters that government has a legitimate interest in. We must not change the correct definition of marriage in reaction to the government foolishly mandating an incorrect one.

This is Brian Myers of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio with your Caffeinated Thought of the Day.

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Brian Myers

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Brian is a Senior Contributor at Caffeinated Thoughts and was the co-host of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio heard on the Truth Network 99.3 FM in Des Moines, IA from 2014 to 2017. Brian owns and operates a manufacturers’ representative firm, Myers & Associates, LLC, and has been involved in sales and business management for over thirty years. He is a former member of the Board of Directors at the Des Moines Christian School. He is also a charter member of Trinity Presbyterian Reformed Church in Johnston, IA, and has been an ordained elder there since 1988.

He and his wife Debbie have been married thirty-eight years and have four children and twelve grandchildren. His passions are politics, history, theology, economics, business, and basketball!

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