SOTN Editor’s Note:
The upcoming Supreme Court decision on gay marriage is the most consequential in SCOTUS history. It is much more significant that ROE v. WADE having far greater impact on American society. Given the direct threat issued by the nation’s Christian leaders, this is clearly a cause that many are willing to fight for… even die for.
That those who have marshaled along the LGBT agenda were even capable of having this case put on the SCOTUS docket is as inconceivable as it is disturbing. The USA is a traditionally Christian nation; albeit, there are many other religions represented among its 300 million plus citizens. Regardless of religious affiliation, the vast majority of the citizenry in no way approve of gay marriage.
To the more conservative and pious, gay marriage is considered a gross violation of scriptural law and natural law. They will not change their position on this issue because of a SCOTUS ruling determined by one judge. New legislation will not compel them into agreement or compliance with immoral law. In the end nothing can change their minds concerning the rectitude of gay marriage. It is neither ordained by the Highest Power, nor countenanced by the scriptural authority.
Regardless of the fact that marriage has been considered a sacred institution between a man and a woman for the past 5000 plus years, a small yet powerful political group has attempted to foist the unnatural practice of gay marriage on the country as well as on the world-at-large. The extremely aggressive and offensive tactics by which they have imposed their will on the American people has been experienced by many. So has the vitriol and hate speech that they throw at anyone who attempts to thwart the implementation of their agenda.
Surely they must know by now that their slash-and-burn strategy will no longer work. Yes, it’s been incredibly effective up until now; but that’s only because the vast majority of stakeholders has been completely caught off guard by their shocking audacity and appalling disrespect. The degree of sheer effrontery and arrogance with which they have advanced the LGBT agenda nationwide will no longer be tolerated.
Yes, this is war. There comes a time when basic values and moral principles must be protected. As the Christian ministers have rightly declared: this is the principle well worth fighting for. Therefore, this is the season; the war has begun.
The American people are well aware that this social conflict has been meticulously manufactured by the Obama Administration. Many throughout the Executive Branch have worked tirelessly to transform this country into an Obamanation. In so doing they have fostered an environment of unprecedented lawlessness and social anarchy. The U.S. Government no longer enforces the rule of law; rather, it routinely violates federal law and undermines the Constitution. It threatens states and counties alike which will not bend to its will, even when the great majority of people reject their unlawful conduct and illicit policies.
The aggressive promotion of gay marriage is yet another example of the Democratic Party’s determination to destroy this country from within. When the nuclear family is dismantled, communities are inevitably devastated. Then cities, just like Detroit and Chicago have, will degenerate into chaos. When the social fabric is torn irreparably in this way, the resulting societal degradation will eventually cripple the country.
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‘We will not obey’: Christian leaders threaten civil disobedience if Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage
By Todd Starnes
FOX NEWS
“We will not obey.”
That’s the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.
“We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not to cross that line,” read a document titled, Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage. “We stand united together in defense of marriage. Make no mistake about our resolve.”
“While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross,” the pledge states.
The signees are a who’s who of religious leaders including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, National Religious Broadcasters president Jerry Johnson, Pastor John Hagee, and Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse.
The pledge was co-drafted by Deacon Keith Fournier, a Catholic deacon, and Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel. Also involved in the document were Rick Scarborough, the president of Vision America Action and James Dobson, the founder of Family Talk Radio.
“We’re sending a warning to the Supreme Court and frankly any court that crosses the line on the issue of marriage,” Staver told me.
He said that once same-sex marriage is elevated to the level of protected status – it will transform the face of society and will result in the “beginning of the end of Western Civilization.”
“You are essentially saying that boys and girls don’t need moms and dads – that moms and dads are irrelevant,” Staver said. “Gender becomes pointless when government adopts same-sex marriage. It creates a genderless relationship out of a very gender-specific relationship. It says that it doesn’t matter and that two moms or two dads are absolutely equivalent to a mom and a dad.”
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Dobson said the legalization of same-sex marriage could fracture the nation.
“The institution of marriage is fundamental and it must be defended,” he told me. “It’s the foundation for the entire culture. It’s been in existence for 5,000 years. If you weaken it or if you undermine it – the entire superstructure can come down. We see it as that important.”
And that means the possibility of Christians – people of faith – engaging in acts of civil disobedience.
“Yes, I’m talking about civil disobedience,” Staver said. “I’m talking about resistance and I’m talking about peaceful resistance against unjust laws and unjust rulings.”
That’s quite a shocking statement. So I asked Mr. Staver to clarify his remarks.
“I’m calling for people to not recognize the legitimacy of that ruling because it’s not grounded in the Rule of Law,” he told me. “They need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time.”
Scarborough said the pledge was meant to be forthright and clear.
“We’re facing a real Constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court rules adversely from our perspective on same-sex marriage,” he told me. For me there’s no option. I’m going to choose to serve the Lord. And I think that thousands of other pastors will take that position and hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Christians.”
Scarborough is urging pastors across the nation to sign the pledge.
He referenced the “outrageous penalties” being assessed against people of faith simply because they don’t want to participate in a same-sex union.
An Oregon bakery is facing a $135,000 fine for refusing to make a cake for a lesbian wedding and a Washington State florist faces fines for refusing to participate in a gay wedding.
“Christians are being declared the lawbreakers when we are simply living by what we have always believed, and by a set of laws that the culture historically has agreed to,” he said. “Right now the courts are changing the playing field and declaring that what the natural eye can see and natural law reveals is not truth. … What will we do, and how will we respond?”
Dobson said there’s no doubt that LGBT activists are targeting Christian business owners.
“For about 50 years the homosexual community has had as its goal to change the culture, to change the ideology and if necessary – to force people who don’t agree by use of the courts,” Dobson told me. “I think there’s a collision here and we can all see it and where it’s going to go is anybody’s guess – but it is serious.”
To be clear – the men and women who courageously signed this pledge did so knowing the hell storm that is about to be unleashed on them – and their families.
“We have no choice,” Staver told me. “We cannot compromise our clear biblical convictions, our religious convictions.