Posted on 03/28/2013 4:01:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
You can’t win the fight if you don’t put on the gloves.
A punch-drunk, old heavyweight boxer knows that’s a truism, but not the churches of America.
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state by a 52 to 47 margin in 2008 but has since been declared unconstitutional by federal courts.
Fox TV, Rush Limbaugh and other talk-show pundits have weighed in, arguing the conservative -- and moral -- position that sanctifying gay marriage with the grace of the U.S. Constitution is not only wrong but a serious threat to the culture of this country.
But those media outlets often speak to those who are already in the choir. That leaves a lot of other Americans who aren’t hearing anyone preaching the conservative argument on gay marriage.
I don’t expect the GOP to provide any leadership. Republicans are too busy cat-fighting with each other and making sure their presidential choice will be whooped by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And where in the heck are the churches on the issue of legalizing gay marriage?
Where are the Protestants, Jews and Catholics? Have they lost their tongues? Their hearts and wills? Their institutional you-know-whats?
Where’s the moral outrage? Why aren’t thousands of our pastors, priests and rabbis shouting from their pulpits? Why aren’t they leading their congregations through the streets in mass protest?
Why aren’t their bishops appearing on the tube with David Gregory and Piers Morgan to defend the institution of marriage as a union of one man and one woman?
Like the bank executives that are too chicken to stand up to the federal bullies in Washington, and like the energy company bosses in California who won’t stand up to the Green Socialists in Sacramento, the churches cower in fear.
Are they afraid to lose their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by engaging in political activity? Are they afraid to be derided as religious nuts and cultural Cro-Magnons by the liberal media?
Or are our churches and their comfortable leaders simply no longer willing to fight for what is right?
This fight over Proposition 8 isn’t just about saying it should be legal in the eyes of government for two people of the same sex to get married in California.
It’s ultimately about changing the culture of the entire country; it inevitably will lead to teaching our public school kids that gay marriage is a perfectly fine alternative and no different than traditional marriage. There is also a very slippery slope leading to other alternative relationships and the unconstitutionality of any law based on morality. Think about polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder.
Churches should be in the vanguard of the fight to defend the culture against legalized gay marriage, not hiding in their pews.
Sure, the mainstream liberal media will be against them and will ignore them as much as they can. But if the churches show up en masse -- and make sure millions of their members’ voices are heard -- the media will be forced to cover them, and even the Supreme Court will feel the political wind.
Meanwhile, as the High Court decides our fate, it’s time for the churches to get engaged and start fighting for America, instead of wimping out. If it takes them giving up their 501(c)(3) status to start fighting for righteousness, then I’m all for it.
every church in this nation needs to address marriage this weekend , they should have been doing this for years anyway.
if someone does not agree on some kidn of kinky weird marriage then leave the church and stop pretending to be religious.
There are millions like me what does not go to church and I don;t agree with it because I knwo the lawsuits will come, the adoption agencies will be sued, as will churches even cake makers and wedding planners if they refuse to do the sham.
Kids will be put into these mentally unstable homes
and most of all why I and many others disagree with them
It’;s sick, sticking it up another mans ass and pushing feces or a woman doens;t like men so she likes women but has to put a plastic strap on to pretendto be a guy
What are they to tell me that is normal, hell no
Never happy. Too many churches are dependent on the weekly donations. Too many people in church who have a neice, nephew, son, sibling or best friend who are gay. Offend them and the donations cease.
It’s the reason there hasn’t been any serious preaching against divorce in at least 40 years.
why not???church is good for you and a Catholic Church is redeeming for you...there is everything to gain and nothing to lose by going to church.
Too many Roman Catholics are not only pro-HOMOSEXUAL marriage but also very pro-choice.
I see them every Sunday at Mass when they pull into the parking lot with their Rainbow as well pro-choice bumper stickers.
For all of our Protestant brothers and sisters watching from the sidelines, the Roman Catholic Church has a very quiet Cold War being waged between the traditionalists and those who should probably join the Unitarians.
This is as good a reason as I have seen for the red states to start seceding. In the meantime, we need to get county sheriffs to start enforcing 100% of those dormant sodomy laws and declare that pervert marriages will not be recognized in their jurisdictions.
good point
LOL...you find a church with a pastor who has some balls; let me know.
Just look at New England...
Indeed. There are lots of us...
most guys I know are tough working class vets etc who just find that a guy shoudl not stick his penis into another mans ass and push that feces, ain;t right, ain;t normal and sure as hell is sick.
Yet the communists and socialists and the homsoexuals always attack Christians and we will see if the court gets rid of DOMA then the lawsuits to churches, Priests, adoption agencies will be on a massive scale.
I’ll never accept the lefts agenda and their sham of a marriage and its not because of religion even if they like to find someone to attack
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