Why are we missing it?

Shouldn't we have been saying something like this?

"Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way.

In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California.

The effort is meant to be a satirical statement after California voters outlawed gay marriage in 2008, largely on the argument that a ban is needed to protect the sanctity of traditional marriage. If that's the case, then Marcotte reasons voters should have no problem banning divorce.

"Since California has decided to protect traditional marriage, I think it would be hypocritical of us not to sacrifice some of our own rights to protect traditional marriage even more," the 38-year-old married father of two said." from CBSnews.com story.

I understand that this is coming from a viewpoint that is opposite mine and that this is not an approach I support, but I think in many ways we are guilty as charged. Don't start carrying me to inquisition, I am not supporting a movement such as this, I am simply wondering why the church has not been singing both verses of this song. If we are for traditional marriage, in every breath that we condemn gay marriage we need to be calling Christian marriages to a God-honoring standard. If you can, put aside the realization that gay marriage may represent a moral tipping point for our culture and consider which has a greater impact on our lives. Divorce has touched us all and the damage is not measurable. If christian marriages were committed to a biblical standard we would not need to be worrying about gay marriage. The beauty of the collective church displaying God honoring marriages would turn the world upside down and would make everything unnatural reveal its ridiculous self. I am not ignoring our fallen selves and thinking that this is only a matter of our collective wills, I am simply using this as an example of the ease with which we throw ourselves out of balance. I see this daily in Jamaica. Jamaica is highly homophobic and they are very outspoken about homosexuality. But it is not homosexuality that is destroying the fabric of Jamaica, it is fornication and adultery that are destroying Jamaica. Again, I am not ignoring the realities of the issue, but I am saying that as long as we put more of our energies to fighting the war outside while losing the war inside, we are in trouble. By God's grace, lets seek to represent Him through God-honoring marriages.