First Principles and the Election | Capital Commentary

First Principles and the Election | Capital Commentary by Prof. William Edgar.  MGB: Missing from the sphere sovereignty discussion is economics and the workplace, which is where the interesting discussions about both control and property occur. That is why the birth control question is hard.  The question of gay marriage is where the spheres of religion, family and the government meet.  Ultimately, the right to marry is the right to form a family - and if individuals are sovereign in making families, then they can certainly call those families marriages and insist the other spheres do so as well.  To treat some families as legitimate and some as not is a problem - as the rights of the spouse in dealing with the family of origin of their partner should know no gender distinction - they are absolute whether it is a wife in dealing with her husband's family, a husband dealing with his wife's family, a husband dealing with his husband's family and a wife dealing with her wife's family.  I can't lay it out any more simply than that.  The teachings in both testaments about spouses being of one flesh apply equally here - even though that was not contemplated when that particular passage was written in Genesis during the exile, or by the Gospel writers in the first century.  The underlying truth still remains and we can claim it as coming from God.  It had nothing to do with sexuality and everything to do with spousal rights - and still does.