by Ed Evans
Many people
are now saying the U.S. Supreme Court made a mistake in their ruling in favor
of same-sex marriage. I contend it was
no mistake. The Justices deliberately
made themselves enablers to immoral behavior and accomplices to the coming persecution
and prosecution of Christian ministers who will, in accordance with holy
scripture, refuse to perform such marriages.
Members of
the Southern Baptist Convention, at their recent annual meeting, affirmed their
intention not to perform such ceremonies.
Other ministers have affirmed the same.
The town of Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, already has on its books a law that
will jail any minister who refuses to marry a homosexual couple.
A
Smithsonian.com article of two years ago said, “According to a study from the
National Bureau of Economic Research, about 20 percent of the population is attracted to
their own gender. That’s nearly double the usual estimates of about 10 percent.” The article went on
to say the difference may lay in survey methodology.
If the
figures from that survey were still true today, that would still leave 80% of
Americans who are not homosexual. Now,
those figures must have changed with time, but they can’t be far off in just
two years. So the question arises, why
would the justices of the Supreme Court force on 80% of the people what pleases
only 20%; something that goes against the religious beliefs and training of
most of that majority; something so repugnant it was illegal only a short time
ago; so repugnant it is called an abomination to God in scripture.
Recently
there was a break-in at a home in Texas that carries a message for us regarding
this recent judicial decision. A
30-year-old burglar was shot coming through a window in a home belonging to a
senior citizen. The senior citizen had a
.357 Magnum pistol and the intruder died inside the home he came to rob. When the police notified the burglar’s
relatives, they were irate that the senior citizen did not fire a warning shot.
This Supreme Court travesty of claiming legality for what is wrong is a warning
shot to those pure of heart.
There are
things that are right, and there are things that are wrong. And claiming that wrong things are right,
because doing them gives you pleasure, will never make them right. Such things are
wrong for very valid reasons.
Even the
learned opinion of highly educated legal judges on the U.S. Supreme Court
cannot make actions that are wrong … right.
Attempting to change or justify wrongness into rightness will only prove
to set in motion Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Physics, i.e., “For every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction.” We have yet to see the Pandora’s box
of justified evils to be set into motion by the legal precedent this latest
decision establishes.
There may be reasons beyond our human
understanding as to why God set marriage up to be one man and one woman,
something beyond creating the kind of family that can procreate and raise
children. But we do know that at least
one of those reasons alone is reason enough for marriage to involve a male and
a female. Whatever His reasons, Biblical
marriage involves one man and one woman, although the Bible does document instances
where men took multiple wives. But even
those unions were male and female.
On the other hand, holy scripture has
plenty to say against same sex relationships.
Some will say it is nothing personal
by the Justices, they are merely weighing judicial precedent, merely following
the law. But as C.S. Lewis pointed out, “You cannot make men good by law: and without good
men you cannot have a good society.”
It also follows that the law without justice is simply unjust.
And that is what the Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
have done, as they ignored the needs of the primary building block of the
nation – the family – and blindly allowed political correctness to warp their
sense of justice. They have acted
unjustly, and become both enablers to and accomplices with those who for
selfish and transitory entertainment would destroy that which is good and right
and unselfish.
There is no good way to do a wrong thing. What the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
have done is eternally wrong.
