The Battle Over Gay Marriage is “God’s Will”

From Gay-Religion.blogspot.com;

Pastor Jim Garlow asked the Oceanside congregation a question: “If the Father’s heart was broken and you could do something about it, wouldn’t you want to know?”

The people at New Venture Christian Fellowship, where Garlow was the guest preacher, nodded and murmured their agreement. Of course they would want to know.

God’s heart is broken over same-sex marriage, Garlow told them. The cure: vote for Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that would allow marriage only between one man and one woman.

To Garlow, what’s at stake is nothing less than eternity – and doing “God’s will.” He brought volunteers onto the stage to demonstrate how God created man and woman and then brought them together.

“If I were the enemy, I would want to destroy that picture,” Garlow said. “I would want to decimate the definition of marriage in the minds of the next generation.”

With the vote just 51 days away, people of faith are lining up on both sides – and in the middle – of Proposition 8. But Garlow, senior pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa, where he regularly preaches to about 4,000 people, has emerged as a kind of General Patton in an evangelical army poised to try to pass the ballot measure Nov. 4.

Garlow frames the fight in sweeping terms.