One of the issues the Church has been combating for quite some time is post-modernism. This concept promotes the idea that there are no absolutes by which we are bound, which in turn causes people to no longer see things for what they truly are. People who subscribe to this line of thought mysteriously have the right to live as they chose, and thereby identify anything as they see fit. For instance, let’s say you have a cat. One day you wake up and decide you’d free this poor creature from the social confines of its catliness. Since you feel there are no absolutes, you now chose to identify it as a dog. Despite the fact that this dog still meows, scratches furniture, and chases mice, you submit to your own misguided authority. This trend of thinking further bears itself out in modern society in terms of identifying gender, when life begins, and now the concept of marriage, all of which ultimately reject the authority of the God (YHWH). Having an orthodox focus on theology and doctrine is something the institutionalized church has neglected in recent years. Marriage is a good example of this. Marriage is a concept that cannot be so narrowly defined simply as a union, especially in today’s world. It can represent the marrying (joining) of two pieces of wood together, or the marrying of two spices in a dish. Rev. Day, and many members of the LC-MS see it as, “the lifelong union of one man and one woman.” The question is, can two people of the same sex stand together and be married to one another? In an abstract way of thinking, yes. However, two people of the same sex cannot become one. The, “one flesh,” reality between one man and one woman is what God instituted in the beginning, and is the matter of fact on which our focus should be centered. Any exchange of human sexuality outside of the one flesh union is adultery. Unfortunately, too many of our great godly men in white have narrowed their focus and are cultivating a new breed of Pharisees. Perhaps we should dump the idea of marriage, and go back to what we know.