First obamacare and now homosexual marriage.
The long term trend is not good. Millennials have grown up with the collectivist, truth is relative, nonsense from birth. They have never seen a rapidly expanding economy where opportunities abound. Instead they've grown up in an environment where the baseline in decision making and money management is the government.
People who believe Scripture is the inspired word of God are a minority and following this ruling it won't be long before the tax exempt status of churches that refuse to marry homosexuals will be denied. I'm sure that when the left finds that God fearing Christians still refuse to comply the trials for "hate crimes" and forced "re-education" will begin.
I know the fiscal conservatives could care less, but what they fail to see is the social issues have driven financial issues. When we started aborting babies our birth rates began to decline. As this happened a magnet for illegal foreign labor was created. Now we have 30 million illegals here who don't want to assimilate, but would rather have a socialist govt take from the productive and give to them.
These kids today don't even know what it feels like when you fall off of a bike and skin your knee, their whole lives has been spent in a protected bubble. They don't have a clue what reality is.
People who believe Scripture is the inspired word of God are a minority and following this ruling it won't be long before the tax exempt status of churches that refuse to marry homosexuals will be denied. I'm sure that when the left finds that God fearing Christians still refuse to comply the trials for "hate crimes" and forced "re-education" will begin.
And don't forget that Nero didn't have anywhere near the amount of power that the American government has. They don't need to listen to phone calls or read emails, algorithmic databases exist that can show with almost pinpoint accuracy who believes what.
I've witnessed and participated in the vicious Catholic v. Protestant debates here on FR over the past decade, but I can assure you that, as of today, we have no choice but to ally with each other in the face of Satan. From a purely financial perspective, only the Southern Baptist Convention and Catholic Church have the resources that will be required to fight this and they can only win if they are united. I've said this before and it's still true: if the Catholic Church is defeated on this, small evangelical denominations don't have a chance.
I know the fiscal conservatives could care less, but what they fail to see is the social issues have driven financial issues. When we started aborting babies our birth rates began to decline. As this happened a magnet for illegal foreign labor was created. Now we have 30 million illegals here who don't want to assimilate, but would rather have a socialist govt take from the productive and give to them.
You're leaving something critical out. Social Security and Medicare are Ponzi schemes that can only work if there is stable and predictable population growth. The Baby Boom was unexpected, but would have been fine if it wasn't followed by the Sexual Revolution and abortion. Everyone in Washington is working to "legalize" criminal aliens, but none of them will admit the reason: we don't just need the labor (we already have that), what we really need is tens of millions more people paying payroll taxes.
And look at the deficit. Seventy years ago our Republic was just finishing World War II, this was the single most expensive undertaking by any nation in history, a few years later we would announce the Marshall Plan and give away billions more, but NOBODY was worried about whether we could afford it. Even during the debates over FDR's New Deal in the 1930s affordability wasn't a factor. The reason is because we had an expanding population of taxpayers and consumers, today that's no longer the case.
America's only remaining hope is that the Almighty will bless those patriots who still remain.