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Currently in America, the
citizens of New Sodom and her suburbs are celebrating the attainment of
their most cherished goal - a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the
law against sodomy in Texas. In deference to that unconstitutional ruling
and the unconstitutional concept of judicial supremacy, every other state
in the Union will now declare their own anti-sodomy laws void as well,
even though that is not how our constitutional system is supposed to work.
Prior to the Lawrence v. Texas decision,
pro-family leaders filed amicus briefs in favor of upholding the Texas
statute; and some Christians did what all Christians should have done -
they fervently prayed that God would intervene in the situation and that
the sodomy statute would be rightly upheld. Certainly it was proper that
Christians prayed fervently that the Great Lawgiver of the Universe would
intervene in spite of His people's failure in the past to defend His law
themselves in this matter. Surely He will uphold His law in the long term,
but we must always pray that He will give us more time to repent of our
ways and properly defend His holy precepts in our day.
The fact that perversion and sexual anarchy carried the
day in the Lawrence v. Texas case was no surprise to some of us who
for years watched, and warned, as the foundation for that win was being
laid by neo-evangelical Christian and pro-family leaders. The sad truth is
that for at least three decades, most Christians in the United States have
bought the lie that the civil government has no business using law
lawfully (1 Timothy 1:8) to punish perverted sexual acts. In fact, most
Christians do not even believe that it is right to
"discriminate" against sodomites in employment or housing!
So now we have arrived at yet another turning point in
our nation's history. The abominable sexual crime of "fornication,
and going after strange flesh" (Jude 7) has found its place alongside
the crime of child killing in a penumbra of the U.S. Constitution as a
"right." There is much Christian hand-wringing as a result, but
the sense of shock and surprise is merely a sign of a biblically
illiterate time! When the majority of the Church of Jesus Christ have
abandoned their defense of the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's
God," why should we expect a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court to
uphold those same dictated and revealed laws of God? Why are we shocked,
why are we amazed when the majority of the Court do what the majority of
the Church did? Why do we reel in disbelief when a majority of civil
magistrates abdicate their responsibility to be ministers of God for good
to punish evil when a majority of the ministers of Christ's Church have
abdicated their responsibility to define good and evil by God's divinely
dictated, verbally inspired, sovereignly persevered, Holy Ghost confirmed,
immutable Word which they hold in their hands? It is not as if God has not
graciously given us enough time to head off this epic disaster!
As late as 1986, in the case Bowers v. Hardwick,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to
commit sodomy. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White stated:
"Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law
and was forbidden by the laws of the original thirteen States when they
ratified the Bill of Rights. In 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was
ratified, all but 5 of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy
laws. In fact, until 1961, all 50 States outlawed sodomy, and today, 24
States and the District of Columbia continue to provide criminal
penalties for sodomy performed in private and between consenting adults.
. . . Against this background, to claim that a right to engage in such
conduct is 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition' or
'implicit in the concept of ordered liberty' is, at best,
facetious."
The reason sodomy had been outlawed in all 50 states
until 1961 is because that act is in violation of the Laws of Nature and
of Nature's God which this nation and every state in this nation are to be
governed by in accordance to our nation's charter, the Declaration of
Independence. Being a crime against God's natural order (Romans 1:26-27),
sodomy is proscribed by the first law; and it is also specifically,
graphically, and repeatedly condemned and forbidden by the second law,
God's dictated Word, the Bible.
Certainly, one can speculate as to why in the latter
half of the Twentieth Century, Christians abandoned their support for laws
that ban sodomy, and other sexual crimes between "consenting
adults"; but the fact is that they did, and now the seeds of sexual
anarchy sown have produced a bitter harvest. And the reaping is far from
finished.
Yes, the heirs of Sodom have had their day, but it is
my hope that one good thing might yet come out of this noxious, evil court
decision. For decades, the key strategy of the pro-family movement and
many Christian leaders has been to talk about the health risks of the
"gay lifestyle" and why such unhealthy behavior should not be
promoted. Certainly, there is value in that to a point, but such an
approach cannot hold back the sexual libertines as it has not properly
equipped Christians or given them a solid means to mount an effective,
God-pleasing counteroffensive against Sodom's assaults. Without God's
blessing, we fight in vain. Tragically, the vast number of Christians in
this nation have come to the conclusion that while "gays and
lesbians" do all sorts of unhealthy things which are repulsive, they
have a "right" to do such things, and of course, they should not
be discriminated against on the basis of sexual conduct. Up until the
Texas case, I dare say there were precious few high-profile Christian or
pro-family leaders who had ever uttered the word sodomy in public
pertaining to civil law, let alone used the word sodomite, and
called for the recriminalization of the acts from which that word is
derived.
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld sodomy laws as
constitutional, in spite of the fact that most Christian and pro-family
leaders had already abandoned defense of such laws. In 1996, in Romer
v. Evans, the court signaled that the life span of existing sodomy
laws was clearly growing short; but still Christian and pro-family leaders
clung to their vain hope of turning back the sodomite tide by positive
talk about protecting marriage from sodomites and sodomites from
themselves.
So now seventeen years after Bowers v. Hardwick
and seven years after Romer v. Evans, the sodomites have had the
stunning victory of which they once only dreamed; and Christians are
furious with the U.S. Supreme Court for not upholding the law which they
themselves long ago abandoned. The sodomites have now succeeded in having
the U.S. Supreme Court put their imprimatur on the pro-family movement's
and the Christian Church's de facto repeal of sodomy laws through their
unwillingness to champion such laws. Perhaps we should focus our
frustration in the right direction. If one leaves the chicken house door
open long enough, he should not be surprised to be left with nothing but
feathers sooner or later.
Through this tragedy, I do hope many Christians learn
the valuable lesson to which I alluded earlier. It is a lesson which is
found, like all worthwhile lessons, in God's Word. "They that forsake
the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with
them" (Proverbs 28:4). We cannot successfully contend with the
lawless by abandoning the proper use of God's law ourselves.
In the main, the defense against the sodomite war
machine has been built upon a flawed foundation, and we may now say,
"the ruin of that house was great." But it does no good to point
fingers at each other; rather survival of our liberties and all hope of
pushing back the black night of sexual anarchy and its evil twin,
government tyranny, which is fast descending dictates that we clear away
the rubble of that flawed fortress which the sodomites so predictably
destroyed in their thirty-year offensive. We must get back down to the
foundation which caused the collapse and build a new one based on true law
and plain truth.
The U.S. Supreme Court has deemed sexual perversion to
be a cherished constitutional right, and all Christians should grieve the
depth to which our nation has fallen. But we should not, and some of us
will not, give in or give up. Rather we must resolve to recommit to
honestly, articulately, zealously defending God's true law and its proper
application with regard to man's law while also fervently preaching
Christ's pure gospel. And we must never, ever again expect the civil
government to uphold what the Church will not defend.
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