Straight couples:Do you call your marriage a heterosexual marriage?

or just say you're married and leave everyone to assume you're heterosexual?





I'm trying to figure out why, if gays want to be the same, insist on calling it GAY marriage, when nothing else is called that....Straight couples:Do you call your marriage a heterosexual marriage?
I don't find myself often announcing that I am married. Instead, I am usually introducing my wife and children to people. Since I am a follower of Jesus the Christ the Messiah, it is clear that I have a heterosexual marriage. Also, the fact that I have children signals the fact that I'm married (to a woman). Marriage is in itself ONLY a union between a husband and a wife. No one has to assume anything. Anyone who has made Jesus the Lord of his life will only be in a marriage that is blessed by God.





I believe that Christians should stand firmly against the idea of gay marriage / same sex marriage. Marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6). Homosexual marriage is a perversion of the institution of marriage and an offense to the God who created marriage. God forbids and condemns homosexuality, so He clearly is opposed to homosexual marriage. As Christians, we are to seek to share the love of God and salvation through Christ with homosexuals. We are to be loving and kind to homosexuals, while at the same time not condoning their sinful lifestyle.





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Question: ';What does the Bible say about gay marriage / same sex marriage?';





Answer: Before we look at gay marriage / same sex marriage, first we have to remember what the Bible says about homosexuality. While the Bible doesn’t address the concept of gay or same sex marriage, the Bible does clearly and consistently tell us that homosexual activity is a sin (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9). God does not create a person with homosexual desires. A person becomes a homosexual because of sin (Romans 1:24-27), and ultimately because of his or her own choice. A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as people are born with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the person choosing to sin by giving in to their sinful desires. If a person is born with a greater susceptibility to anger / rage, does that make it right for them to give into those desires? Of course not. The same is true for homosexuality.





We also have to remember that homosexuality is just as forgivable a sin as all other sins. God’s forgiveness is just as available to a homosexual as it is to an adulterer, idol worshipper, murderer, liar, proud man, etc. God’s love and desire to save extends to homosexuals (John 3:16; Romans 5:8). God also promises the strength for victory over sin, including homosexuality, to all those who will believe in Jesus Christ for their salvation (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17).





To give sanction to homosexual marriage would be to give approval to that lifestyle, which the Bible clearly and consistently condemns as sinful. I believe that Christians should stand firmly against the idea of gay marriage / same sex marriage. Marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6). Homosexual marriage is a perversion of the institution of marriage and an offense to the God who created marriage. God forbids and condemns homosexuality, so He clearly is opposed to homosexual marriage. As Christians, we are to seek to share the love of God and salvation through Christ with homosexuals. We are to be loving and kind to homosexuals, while at the same time not condoning their sinful lifestyle.Straight couples:Do you call your marriage a heterosexual marriage?
Since the word ';marriage'; is historically defined as being between a man and a woman, I simply state that I am married. There is no need to elaborate any further.


Recent trends in society attempt to redefine the word for reasons of political correctness, but this does not conform to the historical meaning of the word.


If people like seenbeen would spend just a small fraction of the effort they expend trying to redefine marriage and shoving it down the throat of the rest of the world into securing equal rights for civil unions, they would have long ago been successful.


It leads one to wonder if they really want equality for civil unions or do they feel that for some reason they need to continue to attack those who simply don't agree with their views?
We just say that we are married. I think that it is just understood that marriage is between a man and a woman. There has been no need to differentiate between Hetero or Homo Sexual until recently. Perhaps once Gay marriage catches on a few years afterward it may be necessary to state which, but I still don't know why if Gay amrriage is recognized it should still just be married.
It's used by anti-gay people. They use it in debates and discussion to to try and enforce the fact that this is a 'different' marriage, something 'wrong'. To make you think that they're somehow trying to 'change' marriage. It's BECAUSE straight people just say marriage that they say gay marriage.





Note: Please don't misconstrue this to mean I am also anti-gay. I am most definitely not.
Marriage between a man and a woman needs no such explanation. When God introduced marriage it was between a man and a woman and God blessed the union saying that a man will leave his father and his mother and live with his wife, and the two shall become 'one flesh'. As a result of this union, children would be born. That is what marriage is, according to God.





One Way Jesus! gets a thumbs' up from me for being honest enough to present the Christian perspective.
Because they are gay? Maybe because most states don't allow GAY marriage, therefore they are NOT ';the same'; in the eyes of the law...





What's your point here?





Edit: For those who hide behind ';civil unions should be enough'; ... civil unions do not afford the same benefits as marriage. (Do the research and you'll see.) Would *you* settle for a civil union versus marriage? I didn't think so.
They don't call it heterosexual marriage, they call it ';traditional';. They're still attaching the label, you just don't see it.





Until such time as marriage between ALL couples is legal, there will be labels to differentiate.
Bravo








Though, I side with homosexuals in the marriage debate, I really don't see the problem with a ';Civil Union';. It can stay a civil union, just make it virtually identical to marriage and everyone is happy.
Sin can justify itself, and legitimize itself, and even legalize itself in this present evil world; yet it is of none effect with God, for what God has deemed as sin is sin, and shall remain sin till the end.
Because its unnatural and to put it bluntly its a sick and disgusting thing for 2 people of the same sex to be romantically or sexually involved...In no way does it compare to heterosexual marriage...
???huh?





i've never heard a guy say ..';this is my gay partner';





i think we use the term ';gay marriage'; only in political discussions
I don't think that gays call it a gay marriage unless they are trying to define who they are if their partner isn't with them.
Nope. Only thing I state is that I am married and I don't fool around plain and simple.





I really don't concern myself with such intrusions from outsiders nor do I engage in such.
I guess heterosexual marriages are not specified because it's the majority.
Did I just read about an INVISIBLE LABEL? wow....maybe its INAUDIABLE because we SAY marriage don't READ it so much....
No, I just say I'm married.
No, we call it: normal marriage.





And yours is: not normal marriage.