In what should rank as the worst decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the lifetime of every living American (rivaled only by Roe v. Wade) and at least one of the two or three worst decisions since the Court's inception (compare the Dred Scott case), five lawless judges (all four Democrat-appointed judges: Obama's Sotomayor and Kagan; Clinton's Ginsburg and Breyer; and one traitor appointed by Reagan: Kennedy) today, June 26, 2015, defeated four Constitution-abiding judges (four of the five Republican-appointed judges: Bush Jr.'s Roberts and Alito; Bush Sr's Thomas; and Reagan's Scalia) to foist "gay marriage" on all 50 states. Five unelected lawyers have acted as legislators and imposed their arbitrary and extreme leftwing ideology on the American people.
Unless this decision can be reversed soon through the next two presidential elections and the retirement/replacement of renegade SCOTUS judges (Ginsburg is first up, followed by Breyer), this will turn out to be the greatest American tragedy for the civil liberties of persons of faith, for the cause of sexual purity in the United States, and for the lives of persons struggling with same-sex attraction. Prepare for a reign of persecution and abuse of people of faith as hateful, ignorant, and discriminatory "bigots" and the moral equivalent of racists in every area of life in which people of faith intersect with the secular realm, individually and in their religious institutions, with a profound negative impact as well within most mainline denominations.
As individuals, people of faith will be aggressively indoctrinated, fined, denied advancement, fired, intimidated, and subjected to ceaseless verbal abuse in public and private schools, at institutions of higher learning, at places of employment, and throughout the main communication organs of the media and entertainment industry. Their institutions will be set on a collision course with the state: denied government funding, contracts, and loans; denied accreditation and tax-exempt status; and subjected to government harassment.
Contrary to what deceived and deceiving proponents of "gay marriage" have argued, homosexual relationships will not be tamed by marriage but rather will destroy it as meaningless. The institution of marriage will not so much conform homosexual activity to the Christian understanding of marriage (lifelong, monogamous, procreative, balancing the sexes) as be transformed over time to accommodate to virtually any type of adult-consensual union. It will eradicate the very basis in creation and nature for defining marriage as complementary of body and monogamous: a male-female foundation. Taking account of sexual differentiation at any level, even opposition to cross-dressing and "transgenderism" and sex-distinguished bathroom facilities, must now be treated as malicious.
This ought to be a day of national mourning and a day of rededicating ourselves to live sexually holy lives and to do what we can as a city on a hill and a light for the world to restore liberty and morality to the nation and its institutions.
I am not saying that Christians should be driven by fear of what the state can do to us. No, Christians must always exhibit the boldness of speech that characterizes free people of the commonwealth of heaven. Christians can respond in faith rather than fear in this moment of American Crisis.
Jesus has assured us, "Look, I am with you all the days till the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20), just as God assured his people Israel: "He will go before you. He, Yahweh, will be with you. He will not abandon you or leave you. Do not be afraid and do not be terrified" (Deuteronomy 31:8). We know how the End turns out. God wins. God's name will one day be revered as holy by all, willingly or not. God's kingdom will come. God's will shall be done on earth as it is even now being done in heaven.
So let us clothe ourselves with the whole armor of God (truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, the word of God, and prayer) for this struggle that is not merely against "flesh and blood" but against "spiritual forces of evil" (Ephesians 6:10-20). And as Jesus reminded us, if you are going to have fear, don’t be so much afraid of human beings, who can (at most) kill only the body. Fear God “who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
Let us take to heart the apostle Paul’s words in Romans 8: No “pressures of life or tight straits or persecution” or “any other created thing will be able to separate us”—those of us who are under the controlling influence of the Spirit of Christ (8:1, 13-14)—“from the love of God that in Christ Jesus our Lord” (8:35, 38-39). “Rather, in all these matters we are super-conquerors through the One who loved us” (8:37). For God “cooperates” with the Spirit who prays within us, working “for the good in all things for those who love God,” the good consisting of “being conformed to the image of his Son” (8:28-29, 35-39).
Who among us does not want to look more like Jesus and to resemble his beauty, the beauty of a life given over wholly to God? Among my favorite verses are these: “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? The One who did not spare his own Son but handed him over (to death) for us all, how will he not also, together with him (Jesus), graciously bestow to us all things?” (Rom 8:31-32). If God offered even his very Son for us, in order to redeem us, he will not spare us any truly good thing now. He will continue to lavish his grace on us. He loves us more deeply than we can fathom for endless ages.
Yet this is not a call to moral sloth. On the contrary, “Let us not be bad in doing what is good for in due time we will reap (our harvest of eternal life), if we do not slack off” (Galatians 6:9). As the ancient image conveys, this is a time for "girding up our loins."
I've never been accused of being a prophet, but my "reading of the tea leaves" here sees that leftists have been trivializing, mocking, belittling, and denigrating the right without letting up since 2008 (they've been doing it longer than that, but they're no longer even trying to hide it anymore). When Conservatives worked to get Congress into control of the Republicans, the Republicans proved to be leftists too. Obama's IRS deletes records of their wrongdoing with impunity; the courts trample the rights of the people; the nanny state increases. Conservatives hare no representation at all.
ReplyDeleteConservatives still compromise half of Americans, and I see a building backlash. I see a spark on the horizon. When it happens, those who have been treated this way for so long are either going to take up arms, or they're going to find that they really can't bring themselves to oppose those who do take up arms. And because America is so evenly matched between the two sides politically, I fear it will be a long and bloody fight. The kind that will make 650,000 Americans killed in the 1860s look like an afternoon boxing match.
But in the meantime, we can take heart that the populace is concerned with a flag and what the proper pronoun is to refer to Jenner.
Tremendous, and from a PCUSA elder.
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