Tulip_Plus_3

You're going to have to help me understand, please. I'm old, I have mommy brain, I've been out of the loop for years. At this moment in time I'm not understanding how my marriage would be suddenly transformed into a, what, if gays are allowed to marry? Not that I'm going to go vote yes on a gay marriage referendum any time soon, but I'm not understanding how MY marriage would suddenly be unsanctified or something if such a referendum did pass. Is that what the Pearls are saying would happen? Who would declare it unsanctified? God? Why would God mess up my marriage? Would that unsanctification be retroactive back through the millenia, or just for those of us who are alive? Or are they saying that God hasn't blessed my marriage because we got a state license?

I dare say that my marriage is between me, my husband, and God. I dare say that it has nothing to do with anyone else. We did get a state license because we wanted the legal status & protection a state license grants. And whatever the Pearls think about my marriage is of absolutely no concern of mine. I happen to have some thoughts about their marriage and what they preach about marriage, but I doubt seriously if what I think would be of any concern of theirs. Actually, I'm sure of it, because haven't they already declared that people who don't spank their kids are cut off from God and are as good as already cooking in Hell? And don't they warn all their followers not to associate with people like us?

Oh, wait. We used the phrase "covenant before God" while reciting our wedding vows. So does that make my marriage okay to the Pearl way of thinking? I'm just not understanding how they can take something so SIMPLE as God's Word & Love and turn it into such a set of convoluted rules & regulations. Rules & regulations that apparently only the Pearls are capable of discerning and disseminating. Didn't John warn us in 1st John not to get caught up in the teachings of of those promoting "secret" knowledge?