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Pro-killing unborn children, supporting genital mutilation of children via transgenderism, and defending an array of gender definitions and the courts to enforce them have become common practices in our day. Same-sex marriage and abortion must be defended at all costs. We’ve seen the implications of legalized immorality in the way bakers, web designers, and photographers are sued for not acknowledging such brazen immorality. The practices of homosexuality, transgenderism, and abortion are civilization destroyers. Following 2 Timothy 3:9, “More women chose to have their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, a new study shows, and the biggest increases were in states that ban abortion.”
At the Democrat National Convention, Planned Parenthood set up a mobile clinic in a parking lot nearby. On the first day, it offered free vasectomies, and then abortions the next day. “In the current climate,” John Semley of the Guardian writes, “a vasectomy almost seems like a political gesture. It’s a way for men to take a more active stake in big decisions about contraception and reproduction that typically fall to women.” A guy named Shawn said, “The rolling back of abortion rights has served to strengthen his and his fiancée’s conviction that procreating at all in the modern US is vaguely immoral.” (Source) I support you! Snip! Snip! Snip!
See my article “The Self-Malediction of ‘In Gay We Trust.’” A worldview eliminates itself if it can’t reproduce. That’s why the enemies of Christ want to control education and too often Christians and conservatives make it easy for them by offering “free education” and “Friday Night Lights.”
What’s next? This case caught my attention: “Polygamist ‘prophet’ accused of marrying 20 women and girls, including his own daughter.” Tell me what’s wrong with what he’s doing in terms of marrying multiple women including his daughter given the new definition of marriage? On what basis is polygamy now wrong? Yes, the Bible mentions polygamy, but it does not promote or endorse it. In fact, the prominent cases that are mentioned created trouble. Those who practiced it borrowed from the surrounding culture (1 Kings 11).
Why It Might Be OK to Eat Your Neighbor
The most damning assessment of a matter-only cosmos devoid of a Creator is that we got to this place in our evolutionary history by acts of violence whereby the strong conquered the weak with no one to support or condemn them. Why It Might Be OK to Eat Your Neighbor repeatedly raises the issue of accounting for the conscience, good and evil, and loving our neighbor. It’s shocking to read what atheists say about a cosmos devoid of meaning and morality.
Buy NowLet’s look at some history.
A judge in Utah said polygamy is a legal right. Of course he did since the Supreme Court ruled on the moral equivalency of same-sex sexuality and heterosexuality. In 2003, “Justice Antonin Scalia warned in Lawrence v. Texas that the Supreme Court majority had created ‘a massive disruption of the current social order’ by striking down a Texas law barring sodomy.”
Justice Scalia went on to predict the following:
State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity … every single one of these laws is called into question by today’s decision,” he wrote. Based on the court majority’s reasoning, “what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples?
In the nineteenth century, the courts agreed that it was necessary for the State to acknowledge the biblical requirement of monogamy over against polygamy. Marriage is, by definition, a union of one man and one woman. It’s a creation ordinance found in Genesis 2-3 and confirmed by Jesus in Matthew 19:1-6. There’s a growing segment of society that describes themselves as “nones,” that is, those who do not espouse any religion. We’re told their vote impacted the 2022 midterm election. “Americans with no religious affiliation or belief skew heavily toward the Democrat party in their voting, according to a report … from the Associated Press (AP).” Everything is up for grabs. Everything!
Thinking Straight in a Crooked World
The nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man" is an appropriate description of how sin affects us and our world. We live in a crooked world of ideas evaluated by crooked people. Left to our crooked nature, we can never fully understand what God has planned for us and His world. God has not left us without a corrective solution. He has given us a reliable reference point in the Bible so we can identify the crookedness and straighten it.
Buy NowThe earlier courts justified their rulings because of moral absolutes found in a biblical worldview. What was true of polygamy was equally true of homosexuality since homosexuality was illegal in all the states, including the Mormon-populated state of Utah. The arguments against polygamy applied to homosexuality with little or no debate.
In The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States (1890), the court determined that “[t]he organization of a community for the spread and practice of polygamy is, in a measure, a return to barbarism. It is contrary to the spirit of Christianity and of the civilization which Christianity had produced in the Western world.”
In his dissent in the Romer v. Evans (1996) decision, Justice Scalia wrote the following:
Has the Court concluded that the perceived social harm of polygamy is a “legitimate concern of government,” and the perceived social harm of homosexuality is not?
With the polygamy ruling, the legal door will be open even wider for the next minority group to argue for their marriage rights. Don’t be surprised if NAMBLA (The North American Man/Boy Love Association) becomes more public with its claim that sex with children is just as valid as same-sex sex and multiple marriage partners.
In Davis v. Beason (1890) the Supreme Court came to a similar conclusion using a religious argument:
Bigamy and polygamy are crimes by the laws of all civilized and Christian countries. They are crimes by the laws of the United States, and they are crimes by the laws of Idaho. They tend to destroy the purity of the marriage relation, to disturb the peace of families, to degrade woman, and to debase man. Few crimes are more pernicious to the best interests of society, and receive more general or more deserved punishment. To extend exemption from punishment for such crimes would be to shock the moral judgment of the community. To call their advocacy a tenet of religion is to offend the common sense of mankind.
Without any way to account for making laws other than judicial or legislative fiat, anything goes if there is no outside reference point for judgment. What’s illegal today could, on the judgment of five of nine justices, be legal tomorrow.
What about child molesters? Can we say they are criminals with the latest court rulings?
“Sons of Guns” star Will Hayden was arrested … on charges of aggravated rape for allegedly sexually abusing a minor “almost daily.”
Former “Cake Boss” cast member Remy Gonzales was sentenced to 9 years in prison in 2012 for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Maybe he was born that way? Who are we to judge the effects of evolution on biology and sexuality?
These men were just ahead of the courts. The same is true of the many teachers who have had sex with students. Today’s perversion is tomorrow’s new civil right.
There has been an almost universal prohibition of homosexuality, condemned by both church and State for thousands of years. “When the first great book on the English Legal system was written — [William] Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England — its author referred to sodomy as ‘the infamous crime against nature, committed either with man or beast . . . the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature.’”[1]
Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law
Nearly all Americans are familiar with the contributions of Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and many other patriots of the eighteenth century. Few Americans, however, are familiar with the one person who had the greatest influence on the thinking of our founding fathers: Sir William Blackstone. This book is an introduction for many to this legal scholar, law professor, attorney, member of Parliament, and judge who shaped the thinking of our founding fathers and, as a result, shaped the content of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
Buy NowAs in England and the rest of Europe, sodomy was illegal in the thirteen American colonies. Nothing changed with the drafting of the Constitution in 1787. No supposed “right to privacy” was put in the Constitution that legalized the practice. These early Christian politicians, lawyers, and statesmen saw no problem in mixing religion with politics in the case of sodomy.
The ruling by the Supreme Court to legalize homosexual marriage placed a moral burden on 98.4 percent of the population that does not engage in homosexuality. Once homosexual marriage was legalized and codified by Congress, every American citizen and business has had to submit to the ruling. Such practices are civilization destroyers.
[1] Quoted in William Dannemeyer, Shadow in the Land: Homosexuality in America (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1989), 57.