If you have been paying even the slightest attention to the news lately, then I trust you are aware that the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages. This law went into effect this past June 16, 2008. The Supreme Court is mandating that all 58 counties in California are to issue licenses for same-sex couples.

So the nation's most populous state has now joined Massachusetts in sanctioning homosexual unions. However, there is a significant difference between the two rulings. “Unlike Massachusetts, which legalized same-sex "marriage" in 2004, California has no residency requirement for marriage licenses, which is expected to encourage a large number of couples to head west to wed” News Article Here.

Marriage licenses in California used to refer to bride and groom. However, with the 4-3 decision by the Supreme Court, now you won't be legally considered either the bride or groom. Instead, new couples will be comprised of "Party A" and "Party B" (regardless if it's a heterosexual or homosexual couple).

The direction our country continues to head is very, very disturbing. God said long ago through the prophet Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil” (5:20). And the more our society calls homosexuality good, the more society seems to tolerate and support its advances in our every day lives.

Things we use to take for granted as fixed and unchangeable (such as a marriage license that reads “bride and groom”), have been cast to the way side by certain unrighteous judges upon the earth. Thanks to our gender-neutral, politically-correct, crazed society that we now live in - California has successfully rooted out of its marriage licenses any references that could be viewed as discriminatory when it comes to the marriage union.

Holy matrimony has been so corrupted that we must now refer to it in many instances as unholy matrimony (Hebrews 13:4). Let's briefly contrast California's marriage law with God's marriage law. The human judges have decided it should be ‘Party A' and ‘Party B.' The Divine Judge, who instituted the marriage relationship, decided that with the very first couple it should be “man and woman” (Genesis 2:18-25).

Many today would do well to listen closely and apply Jesus' teaching on this matter. “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:4-6).

1) First of all, folks need to start reading the right information. What saith the Scriptures? Instead of “what you think or feel about this issue?” Find out what is written, and stand there!

2) Next, notice that God made them male and female. God, in His infinite wisdom, did not set before Adam - Steve and Eve, for him to choose which one he preferred. No, that which is “against nature” itself was never intended to be an option for mankind (Romans 1:26-27).

3) Thirdly, when it comes to the union of “male and female” it is God who gives His blessing to this arrangement by joining together the man and his wife. This is the only kind of couple that has divine approval. God has no part in marriages of same-sex couples. But He has a key role in their judgment (I Corinthians 6:9).

As the inspired Proverb of old declares: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (14:34). If righteousness exalts a nation, then what will all this unrighteousness do to this nation of ours if it continues to spread? Just think about it.