U.S. Minorities Make Known Their Position on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

While we await the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding same-sex ‘marriages,’ months earlier several Native American nations have taken steps to defend traditional marriage.  Eleven tribal nations … with a total membership approaching a million people … will not recognize same-sex ‘marriages.’  Just weeks after North Carolina began issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples, the state’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians updated its law to prevent homosexual couples from having marriage ceremonies on tribal land.  Other tribal nations that don’t recognize same-sex ‘marriage’ include the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Navajo Nation.

Week before last, the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), which represents 34,000-churches from 15-denominations, has declared it has severed ties with Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) after it amended its constitution changing their definition of marriage to include same-sex couples.  “NBCI and its membership base are simply standing on the Word of God within the mind of Christ.  We urge our brothers and sisters of the PCUSA to repent and be restored to fellowship,” said NBCI President Rev. Anthony Evans, according to Charisma News.  “PCUSA’s manipulation represents a universal sin against the entire church and its members.  With this action, PCUSA can no longer base its teachings on 2,000 years of Christian scripture and tradition, and call itself a Christian entity in the body of Christ.  It has forsaken its right by this single wrong act,” added the head of the coalition, which represents 15.7-million African-Americans.  “Apostle Paul warns us about this when he declared in Galatians 1:8 that there are those who will preach another gospel,” Evans said.  “No church has the right to change the Word of God. By voting to redefine marriage PCUSA automatically forfeits Christ’s saving grace,” he added.  “There is always redemption in the body of Christ through confession of faith and adhering to Holy Scripture.”

Incidentally, don’t be too quick to judge Christianity; because the Jewish and Islamic sacred texts equally condemn the acts of homosexuality.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel