Homosexual Unions Are Not Biblical Marriages

I recently spoke at a rally on the steps of the capitol in St. Paul and a similar rally in St. Cloud on one-man-one-woman marriage.

One of the things I said was that aside from other civil rights that are already provided for homosexuals—including contractual rights to share property, convey inheritances, and more—even if homosexual unions were legalized, they would not be biblical marriages.

The basis of this argument is Ephesians 5:23, For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

The point of marriage is to picture Jesus’ relationship with the Church, a relationship that includes something very important called headship. Headship is assigned by gender. Jesus’ headship over the Church is not reversible. The roles are not interchangeable or equivalent. They are complementary. The Church is never the head. Jesus is never not the head.

So if you have a homosexual union do you have two heads? Or, no heads?

If you have two heads, the implication is that Jesus shares headship with the Church, which cannot be. He is himself its Savior. If you have no heads, you imply that Jesus is not head at all. In either case, Jesus’ authority and responsibility as head is defaced by the picture presented in a homosexual union.

Homosexual unions are not marriages.