Dancing in the streets

After the special chapel dealing with the addiction to pornography, I was discussing this topic with some junior high teachers. One said that the chapel’s message was a good place to start in combating Satan’s temptation, and that we should also honestly and openly discuss homosexuality. Just comparing statistics, I would adjudge the temptation to pornography as a greater threat than that of becoming homosexual (yes, I know they will say “I was born this way” or “God made me this way”). Even the gay community will acknowledge that only 1 in 10 humans are homosexual/bisexual, and that dubious statistic is based largely on the flawed and biased research of the Kinsey report from two generations ago.

But then I saw the headline that Ellen DeGeneres was getting married. At first I thought that the lesbian actress had somehow changed, but, no, she was marrying her lesbian lover because California’s Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional and discriminatory to restrict marriage only to heterosexual couples. This picture of gay couples celebrating in the street even appeared in the Daily Telegram.

Although states like Michigan do not have to recognize marriages of gay couples performed in California or Massachusetts, eventually someone will file suit in federal court to force states to recognize the marriages performed in every state of the union, presumably on the basis of the 14^th amendment. This amendment, intended to protect newly freed slaves from being mistreated through discriminatory legislation in the unrepentant south, declares that no citizen shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property by the states without due process of law. Eventually, the case will find its way to the Supreme Court. Eventually, the person who nominates justices for the Supreme Court will play the single most influential role in shaping American culture for the rest of our lifetimes.

Think about that next time someone says how great it would be for a “change.” We may be over and done with a president in 4 years, but we can be stuck with his Supreme Court nominees for a lifetime. Compare the judicial record of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Clinton nominee) with that of John Roberts or Samuel Alito (Bush nominees) and then say that it doesn’t matter who wins the upcoming election.

By the way, God does not create sin. But if every new person is God’s creature, and every new person is totally depraved, isn’t that a contradiction? Remember that God uses existing sinful material (the genetic substance we inherit from our sinful parents) when knitting the new little life together in the mother’s womb. Both the homosexual and the porn addict offend against God’s gift of sexuality, and neither can shift the blame for sin to God by saying “That’s how God made me.”

(Waiting to see if the Dudley Sharpe of the gay community strikes…)