The "Uglies" Continue to Crawl Out

On June 26, 2015, in the case known as Obergefell vs. Hodges, the United States Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 opinion that same-sex marriage was the "law of the land."  The outcry from many churches, including some evangelical ones, was tepid at best.  I heard many say, "Well if they love each other, why shouldn't they get married?"  As you may remember my response was, "This has nothing to do with love; it has everything to do with God's commands."  But, love won out and God's commands, as recorded for us in Genesis 2:24, were cast off as one would shed a worn-out and useless coat.  With that one decision the definition of marriage was forever changed. 


I shared with you that the lid was now off Pandora's Box and soon all the "uglies" would come crawling out.  Next in line seeking affirmation would be polygamy and incest.  Allow me to share just one case reported last week.  "In New Mexico, Monica Mares recently rediscovered the son she put up for adoption 19 years ago, but instead of rekindling a typical mother-son relationship, she allegedly initiated a sexual relationship.  The pair face up to 18 months in prison if convicted and have court dates later this month.  In Oklahoma, investigators arrested Patricia Spann, 43, and Misty Spann, 25, mother and daughter.  The pair were married in March 2016, court records show.  Misty and her brothers were raised by their grandparents and was reunited with her biological mother two years ago.  According to Patricia Spann, the pair 'hit it off' and got married.  In 2008, she married one of her sons. That marriage was annulled in 2010." (www.wnd.com/2016/09/incest-in-america-the-next-taboo-to-fall.)


Friends, if the only basis for marriage is that one person loves another person, then no loving relationship should be denied marriage.  If two women, who truly love one another, can get married, and if two men, who truly love one another can get married, then what is to prevent a mother who loves her son from being married to him, or a father who loves his daughter from being married to her?  The answer is "absolutely nothing!"  But you will say, "Max, those relationships of a mother and a son or a father and a daughter simply do not feel right."  You are absolutely correct, but neither does a relationship between two women or two men feel right.  Any relationship that is outside of the boundaries created by God are wrong!  And God's boundaries are described in Genesis 2:24: one man, leaving his family behind + one woman who is joined to her husband = one new family, a one flesh.  Anything that deviates from that description certainly does not feel right because it is not right. 


This past week I received an email link to an article written by Bob Unruh.  It is a rather lengthy article.  It can be found at: www.wnd.com/2016/09/fed-report-amend-laws-so-gay-rights-trump-faith.  This article is alarming and disturbing.  The author highlights a new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights titled, "Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties." Basically this report is an attack upon the freedom of religious expression granted in the First Amendment to our Constitution. 


This amendment really does not fit the liberal agenda.  If only they could change that amendment to read "freedom of worship" rather than "freedom of religion."  Worship can be carefully controlled.  Worship belongs to a space and to a time.  It belongs in a church or a synagogue or a mosque or a meeting house.  But religion is a culture.  It is a worldview.  It is a way of life.  And, as such, religion - especially evangelical Christianity - is a threat of the liberal agenda.  This article is a must read. 


Finally, this past week the NCAA acted on their threat to the state of North Carolina that unless the North Carolina legislature repealed its law stating that in public places men and women were to use the bathrooms and locker rooms associated with the gender listed on their birth certificates, then they would remove all NCAA championship events from the state.  Tim Wildmon, President of the American Family Association, wrote in a letter sent to the AFA's constituency, " Along with punishing North Carolina, the NCAA is forcing all potential championship host sites to fill out an 'Anti-Discrimination Policy' questionnaire that assures men have access to female bathroom facilities.  Question number six from the policy reads, '...does your institution have provisions that interfere with any person's choice of bathroom or locker room?'"  And so this push to become a non-gender society continues.  One can only wonder how much longer will God withhold His hand of judgment. 


Friends, I am convinced that if we are going to survive in the coming days we need to do two things.  First, we need to study the Bible more carefully and diligently than we ever have in the past.  It is imperative that we know what God has said to us.  This will mean more than just listening to a sermon on a Sunday morning; that is a good starting point, but it is simply not enough.  It will involve personal study, small group studies, and one-on-one conversations.  It will mean that we have discussions as families about the Word of God.  But we need to know the Bible.  And, second, we need to study the United States Constitution more carefully and diligently than we ever have in the past.  And that means that we will need to read it.  I am saddened with the reality that so many Christians have not ever read the Constitution.  In my estimation it is one of the most important documents that have ever been written.  I put the Bible first, followed by the Constitution. 


Both the Bible and the Constitution are under assault by the leftists and liberal elitists.  Their world would be so much brighter if somehow the Bible and the Constitution would just disappear forever.  Without a biblical foundation, the Constitution of our great nation would not stand as strong as it has.  These are days when God desires His Family to take a bold stand for Truth.  I am grateful that our Founding Fathers created an avenue through which that Truth can be shared in the public arena.  How we need to guard that avenue carefully for others are seeking its destruction.