Katelyn Beaty: Same-Sex Marriage and the Single Christian

From Christianity Today online.

If my gay and lesbian peers have the right to sexual union and companionship, why don’t I [as a single, celibate Christian]? If the scriptural passages forbidding homosexual behavior apply only to a particular context, then surely the passages about fornication (sexual behavior outside marriage) and Paul’s praise for singleness are also culturally bound. And so long as marriage ascends into the echelons of existential imperative—you must have this in order to be a complete human being—then my singleness becomes a problem. It is no longer a unique witness to the kingdom, where people “will neither marry nor are given in marriage.” It no longer reveals that the water of baptism is thicker than blood—that an entire generation of Christians could be single, and still God would renew his church. Instead, it becomes a second-class existence.

A very good article. What is good for the goose must certainly be good for the gander. See what you think.