They looked and saw, and fed their minds upon the worldly and immoral and they engaged in sexual immorality. They completely ignored God and went about doing their own thing, satisfying the lusts of their flesh. They refused to control and deny their carnal lusts. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. God ordained marriage in the Garden of Eden.
Children are to leave their father and mother and cleave to one another and become one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. God ordained marriage as the basic structure of society. But down through the centuries man has devised methods of deriving the benefits of the marital state without having to accept the responsibilities of marriage. But they also need to be recognized as illicit alternative lifestyles and in a strange way this apparently is beginning to dawn on the conscience of modern man. It is not the result of a great spiritual awakening.