I find this situation difficult because I see a lot of anger out there about it.
I don’t agree with gay marriage but the elites have made their decision so to speak and something more disconcerting is on my mind.
The tyranny as in prosecution and persecution of people for opposing gay marriage is becoming more and more obvious as the legalization comes into force.
LGBT activists are angry and bitter over real and imagined wrongs done to them and they want payback.
THERE IS A DEEP PROBLEM AMONG RELIGIOUSLY CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE. SOME THINK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL SAVE THEM, NOT GOD. THE POLITICIANS HAVE SOLD OUT AND THE GOP WILL DO NOTHING TO STOP GAY MARRIAGE OR THE TRYANNY THAT IS COMING WITH IT.
BUT BEYOND THE POLITICS, I KEEP ON READING STORIES ABOUT WRONGDOING INVOLVING CLERGY OR LEADERS OF VARIOUS CHURCHES.
SOMETIMES ITS MONEY BUT A LOT OF TIMES ITS ABOUT SEX. THE BIBLE PREACHER OR YOUTH LEADER ASKS YOUNG GIRLS IN THE CHURCH FOR EXPLICIT (DIRTY) PICTURES. THE PASTOR IS HAVING SEX RELATIONS WITH VARIOUS PEOPLE AND SO ON.
FIGHTING WITH GAY PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT DISTRACTS CONSERVATIVE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE FROM DEALING WITH THEIR OWN SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WHICH WILL SOONER OR LATER CATCH UP WITH THEM.
Conservative religious people need to clean up their own backyard about sex.
Meanwhile all good Americans regardless of religion need to stand up to the un-American actions coming from courts that are on the side of tyranny and promote tyranny like their gay marriage decisions.
I’m afraid the American people lack the understanding of what tyranny involves, based on their primary and general election voting records for decades now.
“Conservative religious people need to clean up their own backyard about sex.”
This is true in many more ways than you mention. God’s people need to behave like they really are God’s people. Young women in “conservative” evangelical churches often dress as immodestly as their secular counterparts. They have no concept of “modest” dress. The young men are often as improper in their behavior towards young women as their secular counterparts. The middle aged are sadly divorcing without proper cause. Unwed pregnancies are becoming commonplace. No wonder secular society is corrupt...the “church” has - in many cases - stopped being a good example to emulate. True reform has to start with us that claim the name of Jesus Christ that our actions and behavior always reflect moral behavior....and the kind that starts from a clean heart...not just the desire to look “good.” Then we can have a real influence (salt and light) on the world.
Now that being admitted as the root problem, we still have to deal with damage being done by courts, etc.. Whereas the GOP cannot “save” us, if it doesn’t act in a morally right way (oppose sexual immorality - in this case homosexual marriage) then it can make things “worse.”
So, folks that care what God thinks need to keep pushing the GOP to the “right” and not grow weary in this. At the same time, clean our own houses.
You know if it wasn’t for the failure of “Christians” to oppose the hetereosexual immorality that really started going South in the 60s, we wouldn’t be in this mess with homosexual sin being called “normal.” However, we compromized and actually assimilated the heterosexual sin of the culture into our own ranks. Now it is lead to where we are now. I firmly believe that God’s judgement is going to land on this country, and as one of those “Christian’s” that didn’t act..and was compromised...I bear responsibility. God have mercy on me, and save me and my fellow believers from our own folly, and then save the country.