Reply #44: It's about winning

[Brianboru]

Maybe this example will help. I was putting in domestic partner benefits at a company. I had to overcome their religious concerns.

First, you have to understand the belief systems of these people. It’s a bit like anthropology. You need to sit around the fire with them and listen. When you argue, argue from their beliefs, and use their terms. These people fervently believe that homosexuality is a behavioral disorder, and that people who commit homosexual acts are committing a grave sin. However, adultery (which, according to the Bible, includes re-marriage after divorce) carries the same scriptural penalty as homosexuality (Death by stoning). This tells me that the sins of divorce and remarriage are on par with that homosexuality.

I ask them – If we prohibit domestic partner benefits, should we deny medical benefits to those who are divorced? And their children? The Bible tells me so! They lust happen to like adultery more than homosexuality. What is the difference? They have no response, other than they just don’t like it.

We need to separate the covenantal aspects of marriage with the secular ones. “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s”