Hey America: Lets talk about Iowa's Supreme Court's decision that “legalized” gay marriages in that state, and about whether homosexuality is godly, and about if such action and manner of life is congruent with the calling of God that our national father's felt in their hearts for this nation.
It was July 4th 1776. The delegates that represented the 13 American colonies had been for some days in committee on behalf of the whole of the American colonies. They were debating the issue of whether to declare independence from Great Briton or not. Why was this issue being discussed? What was the single most basic motivating factor that had moved the hearts of these English men (and the populace they represented) to consider declaring independence from the British Empire? I would say that the answer to that question is quite easily understood by the communication of a very common slogan of that day which went like this: We have no king save Jesus! For a great many reasons (there were 63 grievances submitted with the original Declaration of Independence) our nation's founders had determined that they could not serve King George and King Jesus at the same time. Thus on this day it was voted unanimously to declare independence from England, and establish their own central government, which was meant in their hearts and planning to be a government under God. Where His laws ruled supreme. This is obviously testified to according to the expression of Samuel Adams, who as one of the colonial delegates had participated in voting for the passage of the Declaration of Independence. After the passing of the declaration he is quoted as saying, “We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men out to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and .....from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.” 1
Of course, for the original 13 colonies to come to the place where they were willing to vote to cast off the rule of the British Empire was not an over night thing. It had been building for years, having been born of the sentiment of it's people, which for the greater part were God fearing. Which sentiment is echoed in these words that were in 1772 written as a part of a declaration of a small town on the “elbow” of Cape Cod, it's name being Chatham. They held, “civil and religious principles to be the sweetest and essential part of their lives, without which the remainder was scarcely worth preserving.” In like spirit, the men of Marlborough in the year 1773 proclaimed unanimously, “Death is more eligible than slavery. A free born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties....” 2
Much more recently on Friday the 3rd of April, 2009 Iowa's Supreme Court “legalized” gay marriage in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and the first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed. In its decision, the high court upheld a lower court's ruling that found that a state law restricting marriage to only be between a man and woman violated Iowa's constitution. "We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," the Supreme Court wrote in its decision. "The Legislature has excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient justification."
America, let's reason together.
Let's start at the beginning. Lets first consider the sentiment of the One that created the world, as is revealed in the Holy Scripture. Now please keep in mind that we can only, for lack of time and space mention a very few Scriptural notations in regards to this subject. In Leviticus chapter 18 a rather elongated list of sexual sins are listed, among which is found a commandment directed toward males, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (NIV) A few verse later this statement is made, “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.” (NIV) So it is clearly seen that homosexuality is in Yahweh's eyes a detestable thing, and that at least in the case of the nations that inhabited the land of Canaan they were destroyed as a people because of the practice of this sin, among others. A New Testament writer named Paul many years after the prophet Moses had delivered the commandments of the law that condemned in them the practice of homosexuality, speaking of irreligious people (like very many in modern America) who grow more and more vile throwing off the knowledge of God described them like this, “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They became filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.” (Romans 1:26-31 NIV)
It is obviously clear to any honest heart that God's word forbids the practice of homosexuality and associates it with every sort of vile and depraved behavior. This is because sin always begets more sin. Even as righteousness and mercy begets more of the same, perversion will always beget more perversion. So we see that homosexuality is hated of God and that it will only serve to breed more and greater perversion, which in the final conclusion if not repented of, will bring the judgment of God to bare upon any person or nation of people.
The Iowa Supreme Court is quoted as saying, “We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," Let's think about this statement. The Iowa Supreme Court says that to disallow gay and lesbian marriages (homosexuality) does not substantially further any important government objective. Ok, what is the objective of government? I would say that a very basic objective of government is to enforce law that will promote and maintain order and peace among it's people. With this in mind I will remind you of the wisdom of the Apostle Paul as was expressed in Scripture verse that is written above, which undeniably associated the practice of homosexuality with very many numerous vices which are any thing but conducive to peace and order among any people. (in fact, reading the list of these vises is much like reading the news headlines in America today) Therefore, I say to you that this state's Supreme Court by means of its irreligious and unbelieving heart has taken yet another step to encourage and promote the destruction of this nation by aiding the destruction of its moral character.
They are not the first state Supreme Court that has chosen to deny the continuing historical precedent of conservatism (fear of God) that our nation and its courts have held up from this nation's conception to accept and promote that homosexuality is right and therefore should be allowed and promoted by law. The Iowa State Supreme Court, by their very action declared that our national constitution, (which was created by a body of men who by both word and action proved that they both loved and feared the God of the Bible) was designed to include and promote the vice of homosexuality. I say this is a lie from the pit of hell. It is simply the wickedness of their own hearts being expressed through the judicial position that they occupy.
So to the godly of America I will ask, when will you rise up and throw off the tyranny of wickedness that the judges of this nation wish to impose upon you, corrupting your laws and institutions? Our national fathers could not abide the tyranny and corruption of King George. How long can we abide the tyranny and corruption of both the legislative and judicial branches of our state and federal governments?
There remains yet one more question to be answered that was asked in this article's title. Can the homosexual inherit Heaven? I would say that basic reasoning can answer this question very easily. Would you invite some one into your home to live with you that practiced a manner of life that was detestable to you? I think not. In like manner the God of all creation will not invite those who cling to any perversion to spend an eternity abiding in His presence. Simple reason teaches us this. This reasoning is verified by the revelation of the Scripture as is found in Revelation 21:8, “But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.” I would not say that this Scripture (or any other) offers any hope for those that practice the abomination of homosexuality to inherit eternal life, other then that they repent, crying out to God for mercy.
Repent America. Let us turn from the wickedness of our indifference. Let us turn from the every aspect of our lives that are not in obedience to the commands of Christ our Lord. Turn again to the faith of your fathers, who proved at the time of the Revolutionary War that they would stake their lives and fortunes to maintain their godliness. For they chose Jesus as their King instead of King George. Will history record that the righteous of this generation firstly cleansed themselves of their own sin, and then beyond that fought for godliness? Or, will history record that the “righteous” of this generation failed to cleansed itself of its own sins, and beyond that failed to stand up and call the sin of homosexuality, and other sins for the perversion that they are?
A Watchman
Footnotes: 1-The Light And The Glory by Perter Marshall and David Manuel, page 309
2-The Light And The Glory by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 267.
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