We believe that God intended marriage to be a monogamous, lifelong union as clearly implied in Genesis 2:24, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Jesus recalled this original order of creation to overthrow the lax interpretation and practice of the Mosaic Law (Mark 10:6).

Although polygamy was sometimes practiced in Old Testament times, the Bible makes clear that God intended marriage to exist between one man and one woman for as long as both of them remain alive. In Romans 7:2, the apostle Paul wrote, "For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband." (also I Corin. 7:39)

In no case ought any person to enter into any so-called "marriage" with a person of the same sex. Homosexual unions are specifically forbidden in Scripture and are described as manifestations of the basest forms of sinful conduct which degrade human dignity and desecrate God's creational design (Lev. 20:13, Rom. 1:26-27, 32, I Corin. 6:9).

The only marriage ceremony conducted in the Missionary Alliance Church of Blairsburg, Iowa, will be one between one man and one woman.