My only comments on the matters currently before the Supreme Court:
I believe right and justice belong to Mr. Pelkey. But I'm afraid the law may lie with Dan’s City Used Cars, Inc.
Seriously, look it up.
Okay, okay, on the matters on everyone's minds and tongues:
Many, if not most, Western civilizations have acknowledged the existence of committed, monogamous relationships between members of the same gender. I'm aware of none that has equated these relationships with "marriage." If there is, I'd appreciate a link.
That said, with due apologies to my conservative friends, I think we've lost this battle. In fact, I think we lost it a long time ago, and we'd be better off settling for "civil unions," which I personally consider little different from marriages performed by non-ministers, or even unbelieving ministers. Or any marriage among unbelievers. America lost all semblance of Christianity years ago, and the government has neither the inclination nor the ability to bless or curse anyone (except Christians, of course... and Israel, for which we risk a very clear warning).
As for the matter of homosexuality in general, I have, and hopefully still have, gay friends. I pass no judgement on the deeds of any man (or woman).
But the Bible clearly does. In no uncertain terms. Not on the people any more than others, on their deeds, just the same as many, many other deeds the Bible speaks of, including others of a sexual nature.
Don't look at me, I didn't write it. But Moses and Paul, at a minimum, did. To argue otherwise, one must necessarily take a low view of Scripture. Or of God's willingness, or worse, ability, to preserve His Word over the long passage of time. And of the "cultural" argument, I would say only that we are about as far removed from the writings of the New Testament as Paul was from the writings of the Old, and the "culture" of desert-wandering Hebrews was a far cry from 1st Century Roman. And yet Paul held no such "cultural" view of the writings of Moses.
As always, just my two cents. Keep the change.
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We're all sinners. Homosexuality is just one more sin. The difference is that most of us don't shove our favourite sin in people's faces, demanding that everyone accept it and call it normal behaviour.
Will homosexual "marriage" be OK'ed by the Supreme Court? The Chief Justice has invited his lesbian cousin to sit in on the proceedings, so what do you think?
Is it immoral and abhorrent that this should happen? In my mind, yes, but my vote doesn't count. Society has been crumbling, a few bricks at a time, for quite a while. This is just another section of bricks from our moral wall.
Is it in keeping with end-times prophecies? Yes, indeed.
Even so, come soon, Lord Jesus!
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