I read an article this morning about a Christian couple in Australia who are going to divorce if same-sex marriage is going to be made legal there. They have the idea that marriage is from God and, in their own words, "refuse to recognise the government’s regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnisation of same sex couples". But the thing is, governments do regulate marriage. They pass marriage laws that define what marriage is. And those laws can be changed. Expanding who can marry does not affect those who are currently married. And it is just an expansion. Instead of just limiting marriage to male-female couples, Australia, like other parts of the world before it, is considering expanding marriage to same-sex couples. That does not affect this Christian couple in any way, shape or form, so I am at a bit of a loss as to why they should be considering getting a divorce. But that is their choice, strange as it may seem.
That divorce, if it happens, will not involve a church, as their wedding did. It will be an entirely legal process. In fact, marriage itself is a legal contract which is why, if it does not end with the death of one of the spouses, it has to end in a legal manner. Regardless of how religious their wedding was, regardless of how many times they invoked God, regardless of their belief of doing it "in the sight of God and the community", they were still entering into a legal contract. And if their marriage does not end with the death of one of them, then it ends in the courts. They do not go back to church to dissolve it. So is marriage really ordained by God? Or have people just made that connection over the years? Something to think about.
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