Who Will Define Marriage?

Who Will Define Marriage?
—Albert Mohler

The U.S. Senate finally brought the much-needed Marriage Protection Amendment for a vote, and again it fell short. The stakes could not be higher: Marriage is the most basic institution of human life--the molecular structure of society itself.

The very week that the Senate failed to stand up for marriage, the citizens of Alabama overwhelmingly approved a measure that would define marriage in that state as the union of a man and a woman--period. Every time the people of a state have been given the opportunity to vote, they have supported marriage by a landslide. So why does the Senate not get it?

Some still claim that the issue should be left to the states. That argument would make sense, but for the fact that courts are ready to take this issue away from the states. Just look at what happened on the abortion issue. The point remains simple--the people will define marriage for the judges, or they will define marriage for us.