Letter to the editor: Gay marriage ruling flies in face of practicing Christians

Just listen to District Judge Vaughn Walker give his opinion on the unprecedented overturn of the same sex marriage ruling for the people of California. He has the pomposity to declare that one activist judge can wipe away the mandate of 7 million Californians. He goes on to justify his opinion based on the fact that the Declaration of Rights needs to be applied to all, irregardless of race or sexual orientation.

What he fails to understand, is that our forefathers based the majority of their decisions in the Bill of Rights on the only governing standard they had in their day, and that was the Holy Scriptures. If the judge took the time to read his Scripture and to at least come to an understanding of basic Christian values, it is that homosexuality is forbidden. Not because it is the most perverse and debased behavior of a decaying society, but our Lord understood what it can do to the individual. It confuses the sexual roles, weakens the individual, and opens a Pandora’s box of deadly sexually transmitted diseases. History is very clear: If there is an earmark of an out of control, morally bankrupt society, it is rampant homosexuality. The fall of the Roman Empire would be a case in point.

The ruling flies in the face of practicing Christians everywhere. Another glowing example of how we as Christians are asked to tolerate, tolerate and again tolerate, no matter how damaging or how wrong our laws become. I am not surprised however, the older I get, the easier it is for me to understand...“For in the last days, you will have those among you, who will call right wrong, and wrong right.” A lesson for you, judge.

Nels A. Anderson

Gackle, N.D.

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