Welcome to Bible Thinker, the program dedicated to thinking biblically about everything.

I'm Pastor Mike Winger. In the 2015 Obergefell decision the U.S. Supreme Court

ruled to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. This is a careful analysis of why that decision was wrong

legally, morally, and philosophically. I ask you to think with me, I beg you to

think carefully about this issue as we evaluate the four reasons

that Justice Kennedy gave to support that decision. This is the last in our seven-part series on homosexuality. The political issue of marriage, the Supreme Court decision, here's what we need to look at.

What actually happened?

What did the Supreme Court do?

What did they actually do?

Well, we can start with what they didn't do. They did not give

homosexuals a right to get married. That is not what happened. Gay marriage is not what

happened. Same sex marriage is what happened and there's a difference and it's really

important that we understand this difference. It's not a trite thing. Okay gay people

have always been allowed to get married. But people of the same gender have never been

allowed to get married. The issue is not gay marriage that's why I try to be

careful to not say gay marriage or say as little as I can and say same sex

marriage because that's the actual issue for instance right now if a gay man and

a gay woman said I want to get married for whatever reason they're allowed to get married

If a straight man and a gay woman want to get married they can get married

The state has no interest in their sexual orientation opinions. It's just that they're opposite sex.

That's what marriage is.

Similarly, with this new law being passed and new views,

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