As a Christian, I have a real problem identifying with today’s America. I stopped flying the American flag once the Supreme Court forced homosexual “marriage” on us. Both for abortion and now homosexuality, this country is under God’s judgment and has turned its back on Him.
The Bill of Rights and Gay Marriage
The Bill of Rights Day on December 15 reminds one how far this country has departed from first principles. The 2015 gay marriage ruling completes a rewrite of the First Amendment. It says and used to mean, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press .
We are familiar with the term speech or expression, which seems an innocuous expansion. However, expression enables a nearly unbounded multi-billion-dollar pornography industry.
Justice Kennedys majority opinion on gay marriage states, The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to advocate and teach the principles that are so fulfilling and central to their lives and faith. Such language restricts religious freedom by excluding free exercise thereof.
This restriction prohibits exercise of religious beliefs in business and personal lives even though the Constitution makes no distinction between individuals and their organizations, and churches. The interpretation marginalizes tens of millions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim believers for whom Gods creation of heterosexual marriage means homosexual behaviors separate people from the love relationship God desires with humanity. Any subsequent scriptural reasoning applied must derive from that basic understanding.
Now we have a country where women, citing freedom of expression, can enter the adult film industry, but cannot cite freedom of religious expression to prevent being forced to direct their business creative activities to designing and baking wedding cakes for gay couples.
The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/06/30/the-formal-end-to-judeochristian-america-n2018986/page/full
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES GAY MARRIAGE http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
Wayne Cordeiro https://www.facebook.com/pastorwaynecordeiro/posts/10153325310351210
Bar the doors? http://www.worldmag.com/2015/10/bar_the_doors