Majority Report: The Future of Marriage & the Natural Family

Touchstone ^ | May/June 2015 | Allan Carlson

[rhema]

Late in June, the United States Supreme Court will issue its ruling on the Constitutional status of same-sex marriage. Despite some promising hints of second-guessing by a justice or two during their April hearing on this question, the majority of seasoned court observers still expect a ruling saying that the penumbra of the Constitution mandates same-sex marriage. A hopeful minority look for a deference to at least some of the states.

For mere Christians, the issue actually lies at a different level. Authentic Christianity has never been a "national" movement. Whether viewed from a spiritual or a political perspective, the Christian communion has always been transnational. While paying necessary deference to the array of "Caesars" that history has raised (or thrown) up, Christian truth transcends them all.

Viewed this way, same-sex marriage is merely the current enthusiasm of a relatively small number of deracinated, secularized, mostly childless, and largely white elites. The push for this novelty has been most successful in Western Europe, where the culture of death appears to be secure. Even "conservatives" there, such as Angela Merkel and David Cameron, have signed their own pacts with the devil on this and related "family" matters.

It is important to remember that the same-sex marriage movement has won in the United States only because of judicial activism. In its absence, the matter would be but a minor irritation, confined to a few of the "border states" (i.e., next to Canada).

Internationally, of the nearly 200 lands represented in the United Nations, a mere twenty or so have adopted some version of the practice. Despite intense forms of bribery and extortion now practiced by the United States and the European Union, few others are likely to join "the West" in this latest surrender to the sexual revolution.

[afsnco]

I disagree with the author’s view of the consequences of this descent into depravity. We’re ALREADY under God’s wrath for the depravity we ALREADY embrace. We went from a nation that fell over itself to conform its laws to God’s commands, and was therefore blessed to become a rich and prosperous superpower, to a nation that’s falling over itself to reject God’s commands, and we’re now $18 trillion in debt, an amount that can never be repaid.

Neither those acts nor those consequences are accidents. Obedience to God is blessed, and disobedience has wrath poured on it.

So this further descent into depravity can only result in further wrath falling on us, perhaps complete destruction and oblivion.

We’re clearly in the Last Days, and there’s a reason no nation like the USA seems to be found in prophecy. If we’re anyone, it’s the Babylon of Revelation that’s destroyed that the merchants of the world mourn over.

[Rock N Jones]

“People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But
the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. “
It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed”
(Luke 17:26-30, NIV; cf. Matt 24:37-39).