The Church And Same-Sex Unions

• The first time God blesses anything or anyone is when He says to His newly-created sea creatures and birds and humans, "Be fruitful and multiply"
• God creates mankind - male and female - in God's image (i.e., God's image is expressed by male-female)
• "The man" (i.e., the male) was in a "not good" state when he was "alone," and that was remedied by God making for him a female and making them to become "one flesh"
• Paul likens the relationship between a man and a woman in marriage, and their becoming "one flesh," to the relationship of Christ with His church
• This man-woman/Christ-church marriage relationship is again depicted at the end of Revelation in its description of the bride, the wife of the Lamb, the New Jerusalem

Thus, male-female marriage imagery bookends the Scriptures, showing in the end how God spiritually and eternally fulfills what He physically and temporally established "In The Beginning."

So as much as I'd like all things to be equal, all things do NOT appear to be equal, and I therefore think it's difficult for the church to find Biblical justification for "blessing" same-sex unions or according them the same status as male-female marriages. The problem is not that two same-sex people can't love each other, but that male-male and/or female-female does not accord with God's initial and ultimate intention. Such a relationship "casts the wrong shadow" (so to speak), because it doesn't properly copy the things in the heavenlies (Hebrews 8:5).