A couple were wed. Both were devoted to God and each other, and in love with Jesus. Years go by, they have some kids, and their lives seem to be going well.
Then, one day, the husband comes to his wife and says, "My whole life, I have felt like a woman in man's body. I still love God, and I love you and the kids so much, but I cannot keep living a lie. I am going to start living as a woman, and investigating sex reassignment surgery. I want people to start referring to me as a she rather than a he, and I will change my name. Like I said, darling, I still love you, and I would like to stay married to you if you are willing to continue living with me. I am still the same person you fell in love with, and I will continue to be a good spouse and parent. I hope you understand."
The wife is understandably shocked. She had not seen it coming. After tears, hugs, and conversation, the wife convinces her husband to enter Christian therapy to cure his gender dysphoric disorder. He does, for an entire year, but at the end, he feels like a woman more than ever, and she begins to come out as a trans woman to her parents, colleagues, and friends. She tells the kids to start calling her Mom instead of Dad. She is filing paperwork to change her legal name from a man's name to a woman's. And all the time she wonders if her wife is about to serve her divorce papers.
As a committed Christian, what should the wife do? Should she stay married to her husband as he makes the transition to being her wife, fulfilling their marriage vows, but in a same-sex marriage? She firmly believes that homosexual sex is sinful, and that same-sex marriage is immoral. So should she violate the commands of both Jesus and Paul, and break her marriage vows, by divorcing her husband? Divorce is only permitted, she believes, in instances of abuse or infidelity, and her spouse has always been gentle and faithful.
If gay marriage and divorce are both wrong, both sin, what should she do?
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