I was just watching Ted Olsen and Tony Perkins debate this subject on Fox News.
Ted compared this to the civil rights movement’s defense of interracial marriage. He also lied to the host, saying there wasn’t anyone harmed by “gay” marriage in Massachusetts (but Tony responded with the mention of adoption agencies in Massachusetts that had to close).
The civil-rights premise Ted used regarding interracial couples compared to homosexual “marriage” is invalid.
Interracial marriages do not violate Biblical law (Torah/Commandments). Same-sex marriages definitely do offend people of faith.
As we will soon see, these same “civil rights” defenders will mount a legal assault against both churches and entire systems of faith, labeling them “discriminatory” under the law. Soon after, tax-exempt status will be jeopardized for these same faith-based institutions, and they will be blacklisted from doing business or from receiving any type of cooperation from local, state, or the federal government (much like the BSA has experienced).
If people of faith stick to their Biblical belief system, they will have to go underground and worship in secret, just like in any (other) Communist country.
Divorcing Christian observance from social approval might have some salutory effects. Christians have been diluting gospel because a diluted gospel was being welcomed. But now the gospel that is welcomed is one that is so (pardon the pun) buggered, that this compromise is no longer acceptable.
American culture being what it is, maybe it will continue to go on in the open in churches for a while. Nobody knows when the slide will stop; perhaps another revival is still in God’s cards once the need for it becomes painfully evident.
Interracial marriage applications were denied not because of marriage definitions but because of now abolished segregation laws. Big difference.
There is no legitimate comparison of the effort to normalize homosexuality with the struggle that Black Americans suffered to secure their civil rights and Black Americans have said so.