Same-sex marriage is bad for America.
While some people hope that this ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States might be overturned, most historians and court watchers are assuming that it will never happen.
That won’t keep us from seeking to influence people to live lives of righteousness and godliness in our country.
Why is same-sex marriage bad for America?
First, same-sex marriage denigrates the very meaning of marriage. Marriage implies an institution – – not created by states or nations – – created in natural law to populate the world and nurture its children.
The Supreme Court cannot change natural law. All you have to do is talk to someone raised without a father, and you hear immediately their longing for a father.
From a Christian point of view, Christians cannot forget that our marriages are to be pictures of Christ and his church. The church is the bride of Christ; Christ is the bridegroom.
Second, the premise of same-sex marriage is all wrong. Justice Kennedy, in speaking for the five members of the Supreme Court who voted to institute same-sex marriage in America, noted that they wanted to help the happiness of same-sex couples.
That gives us a premise of placing happiness above all other values. It also places the needs of adults – – no matter how misplaced they may be – – ahead of the needs of children.
Third, same-sex marriage does not provide for the common welfare. Our constitution was ratified to “promote the common welfare.” This attack on the family is not promoting the common welfare–it’s doing the opposite. Our government needs to encourage the creation of stable, strong, child-nurturing family units.
Our country has seen the devastating effects of fatherless children and of single parents. Why would we do anything to make this more of a problem?
Fourth, same-sex marriage leads us down a very dangerous slippery slope. Immediately after the Supreme Court decision we began to hear calls for the legalization of polygamy. Shame on the Supreme Court. Certainly, the Supreme Court needs to apologize to the state of Utah, a state required to ban polygamy before it could enter the union.
In his dissent, Justice Roberts stated that the court in its majority opinion had simply given reasoning for supporting and encouraging polygamy as well.
Can we survive this kind of thinking?
“Family is built on marriage and government–the state–has a profound interest in the integrity and well-being of marriage, and to write it off as if it were purely a religiously significant action and not an institution and action that has a profound significance, would be a terrible mistake”–Princeton Professor Robert George.
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5 Responses
Waylon,
Very well done.
Paris Reidhead (“Ten Shekels and a Shirt”) would have loved your second point and, no doubt, taken off on a powerful discourse on the harmful effects of humanism.
I do agree that it would be very difficult for the country to reawaken from this nightmare and dispatch it. In community property states like Louisiana, “communities” are being established that would be quite difficult to dissolve.
However, amazing things take place in times of revival. I think we should continue to pray for the right result as God’s Holy Word teaches us, regardless of difficult consequences.
In Him,
Bill
Dr. Bailey. Amen to everything you said. Especially point number 4. Pandora’s box has been opened, and sanctioned by the very people who have vowed an oath to support the Constitution. Instead, they have bowed to pressure, and catered to the liberal, Christ Denying voices in America, and have chosen popularity over righteousness.
I wonder if this will be yet another “Roe V. Wade” in this country that will assuredly cause us to sink even further in to the mire of wickedness and filth. Scripture says; “Woe to the nation whose king is a child”. Im afraid that is exactly what we have in America now. Our Salvation will not lie in horses or chariots, but only in God.
Lastly, and I realize that this doesn’t mean much to most people; but same sex marriage totally destroys the picture of Christ and his Church. That’s how God intended it to be. Paul pointed out the relationship and similarities in his writings. A man and a man, or a woman and a woman, destroys and annihilates the love relationship picture of the relationship and love between a Holy Savior and his Bride. May God have mercy.
Thanks, Wayne. EVen the Old Testament has the metaphor–the Prophecy of Hosea and Isaiah 62, among others.
Difficult to overturn the decision, but not impossible. With God NOTHING is impossible. He is still performing miracles. We as Christians can not give up & have to stop thinking that these new rulings are hopeless.
Yes, we need to pray and turn from our wicked ways (2 Chronicles 7:14).