Immanuel
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Wrong there is a thing called state sanctioned legal marriage. You do not even have to go to a church to get married. The state recognizes your marriage whether are affiliated with a church or not. The state issues you a license. Clearly Legal Marriage is the domain of the states.
Marriage is a Rite of the Church. The state has no business being in the marriage business.
Immie
So, you consider my wife and I married...even before the State of California did.
I have already stated my opinion on this, many times in fact.
First of all, the only reason I have to consider you married is that you claim to have been married by a church. I can only take your word for that and if you were married by a church, then yes, I consider you married. Whether or not God approves of that marriage is unknown to me.
Second, the state has no business being involved in marriage, not yours and not mine.
The state should license Civil Unions for all couples gay and straight and let the church deal with the Rite of Marriage. You stated in a post above that you were married by the church in, I think you said 1999, it is not up to me to say whether or not you are married and personally, I don't care one way or another.
IMHO, the only thing that matters, besides your happiness is your relationship with God. I believe you are committing a sin. How that affects your relationship with God, I cannot say. I cannot and will not claim to have defeated sin in my life and do not expect that you can either. I believe that our sins will, or maybe I should say have been, dealt with and our faith is the issue at hand.
Immie