Church State Council Endorses Marriage Amendment
In November, California will vote on a ballot initiative intended to amend the state constitution to provide that marriage consists of a man and a woman. The Seventh-day Adverntist Church State Council Board recently endorsed this initiative, known as the Marriage Amendment. Read the Seventh-day Adventist church's official statements below regarding marriage.
For current statements, information, and articles of interest regarding marriage amendment, please click here.
An Affirmation of Marriage - Issues related to marriage can be seen in their true light only as they are viewed against the background of the divine ideal for marriage. Marriage was divinely established in Eden and affirmed by Jesus Christ to be both monogamous and heterosexual, a lifelong union of loving companionship between a man and a woman. In the culmination of His creative activity, God fashioned humankind as male and female in His own image; and He instituted marriage, a covenant-based union of the two genders physically, emotionally, and spiritually, spoken of in Scripture as "one flesh." . . .
www.adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main_stat16.html
Seventh-day Adventist Response to Same-Sex Unions--A Reaffirmation of Christian Marriage - Over the past several decades the Seventh-day Adventist Church has felt it necessary to clearly state in various ways its position in regards to marriage, the family, and human sexuality. These subjects are at the heart of many pressing issues facing society. That which for centuries has been considered to be basic Christian morality in the marriage setting is now increasingly called into question, not only in secular society but within Christian churches themselves. . . www.adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main_stat53.html
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