I wonder if the end result of this ruling will be similar to what happened in Europe as a result of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Only the state will have the power to marry; all marriages will be civil unions. If Christian couples desire a religious ceremony, it can be performed after the civil. However, the pastors/ministers/priests will have no legal authority to marry. Date of the marriage will be the civil ceremony. Couples can only marry when governmental offices are open.
Does a church have to marry someone who is not a member? Does a church have to marry someone who has not accepted Jesus as his/her Savior?
Churches can stop issuing marriage licenses if this becomes a problem.
In fact I bet that the courts take away this ability soon.
Get ready to strike down the first amendment
Christianity is the target and YOUR children and grandchildren. The Christian Worldview can NOT be formed in such a toxic environment. That is the Marxist point-—to grab ALL the children and flip Good and Evil. They have to destroy the Worldview which created Individualism and Autonomy and the Age of Reason, and they KNOW how to do it. Sexualize children during Latency. It is easy. They have been corrupting your families since 1950s or before (on purpose with Neo-Freudian and the pederast Kinsey’s worldview. All to destroy morality to collapse culture. Vice creates Slaves and sexual vice is the easiest for the State to manipulate the mass. (Collective Mindlessness).
The Leftists have ALWAYS known since Sex Ed was created by Lukacs and the Cultural Marxists to literally destroy moral formation in children (Rape their Minds and Innocence). It traumatizes them and fixates them in an immature (narcissistic) stage. It prevents moral formation—and without Virtue, there is no Freedom. Outside control ONLY in adulthood (like most young adults today—it is “feel good, it is good” ethics being EMBEDDED). We see it played out in the narcissistic, evil culture today.
Latency (5-13) is when the sex drive is naturally submerged so that children will bond with the same sex-—to learn about their own identity. It is normal for girls to prefer girls and boys to prefer boys during this stage. When sexualized—like they do in schools—this natural stage is destroyed—corrupted and warped. They “see” each other in sexual terms-—as body parts which should NEVER happen. They are repulsed by differences at this age (naturally because of the necessary stages for maturity which takes YEARS) and it is when the idea that children are homosexual can be embedded, because they DO “love” the same sex at this point. It corrupts how they see boys and girls. It DESTROYS normal sexual identity formation-—and WARPS their perceptions of themselves in relationships to the “Other”.
To give them the ideas of perversion (homosexuality) destroys Christian Worldview— of perverse coupling-—prevents the complete maturity-—of that Mystery and Innocence that has to occur to create Dignity and Wonder for the opposite sex. Romance is a Christian concept and it was only in Christian cultures which gave dignity and worth to women.
It was embedded emotions during childhood which creates how you “think” in adulthood. It is WHY childhood is called the FORMATIVE years and ALL TRAUMA (disruption of normal formation) will never be erased in people. Those embedded emotions will ALWAYS be there and are ALMOST impossible to erase..
I’m not that kind of Christian.
“The church will be attacked next....and very soon. Mark my words. There will be text cases where homosexual “couples” will go to conservative Bible believing churches and ask to be married there.”
This can all be resolved with one change. Take the Defense of Marriage Act, change the name to the “Defense of Holy Matrimony Act” and send the name change to Congress for a vote.
Negates the semantics and affirms the Church’s protection from the State.
This isn’t complicated. And will take all of 10 seconds.
States should abolish marriage in favor of civil unions. Anyone can get a civil union. However, marriage is reserved for churches. No one is required to get married and civil unions can be handed out to anyone by the state.
You are right the evil militant sodomites will not stop until they have shut churches down or are forced to wed them. I hope Pope Francis makes a strong statement about this.
The court ruled that the part administered by the state has to be open to all, but does that now compel religious institutions to perform the ceremony of holy matrimony for all couples?
If so; freedom of religion is indeed dead.
Let's see how the mosques handle this.
Back to the catacombs.
I can see Christians put to death during pre NFL game "entertainment".