Posted on 06/11/2016 1:03:12 AM PDT by Coronal
A federal judge in Alabama has issued a permanent injunction barring state officials from denying same-sex couples the right to marry in that state, according to court documents made public on Wednesday.
The order, filed on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade, came in response to a 2014 lawsuit challenging Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage, finalizing a decision Granade made in early 2015 that the state law was unconstitutional.
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We sure do live in interesting times. Unfortunately.
I would prefer them to be less “interesting”.
The inmates are running the asylum and seem Hell-bent, literally, on driving this bus off a cliff. (pardon the mixed metaphors).
It would be instructive, I believe, to look at what led up to this, and, I believe, we can’t validly point all blaming fingers at “liberals” and “perverts.”
America itself has become more and more lax about the sacredness of marriage and all that implies. When the foundations are destroyed, says the Good Book, what can the righteous do?
This is like the rash of a fever. But we were wallowing in the germs long before that.
And may I add, that marriage on earth (which will not bind upon souls in heaven) is but a picture of how God and now-sinful humanity yet unite in a spiritual embrace by means of the grace of God.
So called “gay” is a picture of an ultimately vain spiritual do-it-yourself job on the part of humanity.
If we but lifted the situation up to the facial appearance of human standards of yesteryear, we would have done far too little. We need to lift it up in prayer in the hope of a miraculous restoration in God, to those who are willing. Many may not be willing, and not even God may force them against their wills. Freedom is dangerous in an era of increased sin; but it is the only thing that makes attempts to righteousness mean anything in the end. A righteousness undertaken for one’s own self interest isn’t even righteousness any more. It’s a game we try to play upon God.
There is a final order, and it isn’t issued by this human judge.
But by the time it is, it is too late.
Leaning on the state alone to keep us doing the right thing is leaning on a weak reed indeed. I fear Christians have become state-a-holics, even world-a-holics, due to an overly friendly state and world that in turn is using Christianity to cynical ends. Look at what they do — if a merchant won’t tell them a Merry Christmas that it doesn’t even mean, they shout Boycott!
Apparently this federal judge never heard of the 10th amendment to the federal constitution.
He’s in plenty of company with 5 of the USSC.
And surely not all of the breaches of this principle were worked by “liberals.” Some were shortsightedly worked by “conservatives” especially when there was some important looking moral axe to grind. But every hole in the dike made it leakier.
Not sure I know what your comment means
Crazy, I know.
he’s a she
Noted
It’s like mobs are pulling the government along.
In the face of this, someone like Donald Trump makes sense. He came as the un-politician. He is trying to get a consensus of the part of America that can still bring itself to reason. Is it too late? Only God knows. But I pray it isn’t too late, and then I pray that everyone sends kneemail to God. The chaos is a measure of where our souls are.
Where does it say in the US Constitution that courts can create and nullify laws? A court issues opinions, not binding dictates.
Now let the judge enforce it.
Time for Alabama to split off...
[When the foundations are destroyed, says the Good Book, what can the righteous do?]
Look up! Your redemption draws near.
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