Now let me draw out some specific ways to hold marriage in honor. First, don't confuse marriage with homosexual or lesbian relationships. Minnesota, like every other state so far, does not permit legal marriages among same sex people. The Minneapolis School District has offered parenting classes for lesbians and homosexuals since 1987. Minnesota has no state law prohibiting adoptions by homosexuals or lesbians.
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And that is the exact opposite of holding marriage in honor and keeping the marriage bed undefiled. So the first way to honor marriage in our day is not to confuse it with the abomination of homosexual or lesbian partnerships. In the beginning God created man male and female in his own image, and he blessed them, and said be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth . . . God's judgment on homosexual and lesbian relationships is not because he is a killjoy, but because he is opposed to what kills joy. And our opposition to such partnerships is not because of some knee-jerk homophobia, as they say again and again, but because of a settled and reasonable conviction that God knows better than anybody what is good for us and for society.