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The Slippery Slope started in Eden

June 24, 2011 New York State became the newest state to pass a Marriage Equality Bill. After the fact, Facebook was inevitably updated with thousands of posts either in celebration of this action or bashing the decision. I chose to avoid controversy by not posting my feelings on the issue. What often happens in these cases is that I express my stance and another individual gives me their counter stance and prepares to argue me down until I see things from their point of view. Here's the thing; your not going to change my mind anymore than I'm going to change yours. We just need to agree to disagree. My opinion on the matter is not an opinion but a viewpoint stemming from a source of morality outside of myself that does not bend and sway with the changing social trends.

As I began to process the varying statements posting on Facebook in reference to the Same-Sex Marriage Bill now in full effect in my home state, I found myself reading the same argument over and over. "It's the beginning of a slippery slope". Is it? Is this just the beginning of marriage's redefinition? The counter argument would argue back "What about the spike in the divorce rate? What about the rampant infidelity among heterosexual couples? We're the ones degrading the institution of marriage?" Touche.

In further conversation over the topic with some friends this past weekend, my roommate from college very straight forwardly commented, "The slippery slope started in Eden". End of argument. The issue here is not gay or straight partnerships or marriage or the destruction of the marriage and family structure, the issue here is one of sin. Of selfish disobedience against God's intended order for the world and relationships. We are all Children of Eden. The institution of marriage needs to be revamped and redeemed; not redefined.

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