How should the God-fearing,
Bible-believing Christians respond if the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rules to
re-define marriage in June? What do we
do if same-sex 'marriage' becomes the law of the land?
We must respond just as we did when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion-on-demand
in 1973 – devoting ourselves (all the more) to stand for what is right and to
be agents to right the wrong.
If you are reluctant to respond in
this way, let me ask you the reverse: What would gay activists do if, quite
unexpectedly, the SCOTUS rules against same-sex 'marriage' … even invalidating
all same-sex ceremonies performed to date?
Do you think gay activists would throw in the towel? Do you think they would say, “Hey, we gave it
our best shot, but the law is the law”? Not
a chance. A ruling like that would
energize them all the more.
Why should it be any different for
those of us who embrace God’s Word as the absolute authority in all things?
The idea that we are swimming
against the inevitable tide of history is completely ludicrous. Listen: It is gay activists and their allies
who are swimming against the tide of history – more than five millennia of
history – while we who are on the side of God’s definition of marriage as
between one man and one woman are simply standing our ground against the newest
social experiment (a recent innovation of barely 15-years worldwide).
More importantly, we do not abandon
our convictions simply because we have a series of setbacks … however serious
those setbacks may be. We do what is
right because it is right, not because it is successful. We do what is right because of our sacred
obligation to God and to the next generation … regardless of the opposition we
encounter.
In this regard, we can learn much
from the pro-life movement, which suffered a crushing blow when the SCOTUS
legalized abortion in 1973. How
fractured was the movement at that time? How discouraged were the leaders? How bleak was the outlook? And in the aftermath of the sexual revolution
of the 1960s, how certain did the embrace of abortion seem to be? History was apparently on the side of the
pro-abortion side. Not so! More than 40-years later, despite the
agonizing loss of more than 56-million babies, the pro-life movement is more
vibrant than ever … with more and more young people joining the cause. Who would have imagined?
Abortion clinics continue to close
at unprecedented rates; laws continue to be passed to protect the unborn; and
the abortion practitioners continue to be unpopular in the medical field. And while there is a tremendous amount of
work that remains to be done, it is the pro-abortion camp that is concerned
about how the SCOTUS might one day rule … should the right case come before the
court again.
For the moment, given the SCOTUS’ recent
ruling on gay ‘marriage’ in Alabama … underscored by the dissenting opinion of Justice
Clarence Thomas … it seems to indicate that the justices are postured to make
homosexual ‘marriage’ the law of the land in June. While we may expect the worst, let us pray
and work for the best … recognizing that this is just one battle in a
multi-generational war. The greater the
opposition, the greater need be our resolve.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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