Why the fuss?

FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. --Ephesians 5:31 (NASB)

Do you think God could have made it any clearer? He says quite simply that a man should leave and cleave to a woman. Adam and Eve were male and female. There is really no place in the Bible for a "committed relationship between two consenting adults" outside of marriage and marriage is reserved for a man and a woman. Period. End of discussion. So why all the fuss?

Because human beings are bound and determined to live however they want to live. In the USA, we are being told we must let everyone live they want to live and not even call things right or wrong. You see, if one way is right, then that must mean there is a different way that is wrong. So, in the name of tolerance, we must not ever say our way is right, because that means someone else's way is wrong. Baloney!!!

God has set a very definite standard in His Word. It is not a relative standard. It is a clear standard of right and wrong. And, if I may be frank, sex outside of the bounds of matrimony is WRONG! We missed that message somewhere in our fight for "sexual freedom" in the last 40 years. But the Bible is clear, it is wrong. It was wrong in the historical context of the Biblical writers and it is wrong today. Call me a fundamentalist. Call me intolerant. But in Wisconsin, with one of the simplest to read constitutional amendments I have ever read, we are being told that marriage is not as important as God has said it is. If marriage is the picture of Christ and the church, then it must be important as defined in the Bible.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. --Ephesians 5:25-30 (NASB)

“Marriage. Shall section 13 of article XIII of the constitution be created to provide that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state and that a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state?” --From the Wisconsin state ballot

Seems pretty simple, so why all the fuss?