June 26th, 2015
America Family Association’s Tim Wildmon calls it a “Spiritual 9/11”
“We’re not surprised but extremely disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision. I fear for our country, quite frankly, because this is a spiritual 9/11, I believe. We have said to God Almighty, We don’t care what you say about marriage and your definition of what’s natural and normal.
“If you look in the scripture, often times when God’s people rebelled against Him, He turned them over to destruction. Christians need to pray for mercy and we need to pray for a revival in the land.
“I think the next line of defense is religious freedom. We must take a stand for religious freedom in this country and fight back in the courts and in the state legislatures, if not the federal legislature, to uphold religious freedom.”
The Family “Research” Council’s Tony Perkins’s reaction was a veritable word salad of anti-equality talking points:
“Five justices on the Supreme Court have overturned the votes of 50 million Americans and demanded that the American people walk away from millennia of history and the reality of human nature.
“In reaching a decision so lacking in foundation in the text of the Constitution, in our history, and in our traditions, the Court has done serious damage to its own legitimacy.
“No court can overturn natural law. Nature and Nature’s God, hailed by the signers of our Declaration of Independence as the very source of law, cannot be usurped by the edict of a court, even the United States Supreme Court.
“Marriage is rooted not only in human history, but also in the biological and social reality that children are created by, and do best when raised by, a mother and a father. No court ruling can alter this truth.
“It is folly for the Court to think that it has resolved a controversial issue of public policy. By disenfranchising 50 million Americans, the Court has instead supercharged this issue.
“Just as with Roe v. Wade in 1973, the courts will not have the final say on this profound social matter. The American people will stand up for their right to have a voice and a vote, especially as they experience the ways in which redefining marriage fundamentally impairs their freedom to live and work in accordance with their beliefs.
“With this ruling, the Supreme Court has set our government on a collision course with America’s cherished religious freedoms, explicitly guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
“Americans will not stop standing for transcendent truth, nor accept the legitimacy of this decision. Truth is not decided by polls or the passage of time, but by the One who created time and everything that exists therein.
Perkins may have been long-winded, but not nearly as much as National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown. I won’t post the full thing — it’s way to long — but one way to sum it up is to imagine him stamping his foot and screaming, “We’re not irrelevant, damn it!“:
Though expected, today’s decision is completely illegitimate. We reject it and so will the American people. It represents nothing but judicial activism, legislating from the bench, with a bare majority of the Justices on the Supreme Court exercising raw political power to impose their own preferences on marriage when they have no constitutional authority to do so. It is a lawless ruling that contravenes the decisions of over 50 million voters and their elected representatives. It is a decision that is reminiscent of other illegitimate Court rulings such as Dred Scott and Roe v Wade and will further plunge the Supreme Court into public disrepute.
Make no mistake about it: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and countless millions of Americans do not accept this ruling. Instead, we will work at every turn to reverse it.
The US Supreme Court does not have the authority to redefine something it did not create. Marriage was created long before the United States and our constitution came into existence. Our constitution says nothing about marriage. The majority who issued today’s ruling have simply made it up out of thin air with no constitutional authority.
Mission America’s Linda Harvey says your children are in danger:
“Parents, it’s time to make some hard decisions. Your children will now be told in public schools that there is only one view of sexuality and it is that anything goes. Thirteen year olds can ‘date’ people of the same sex and go full speed into the homosexual life, and any efforts to prevent them from doing so will be subject to restraint by the full force of law. And so, God help us,” she said.
“The majority on this court has defied the testimony of nature, anatomy, history and Almighty God. Jesus declared marriage to be one man and one woman in Matthew 19,” Harvey stated. “Because of this arrogant and unsustainable decision, America now stands in defiance of God, and we can only pray now for His mercy on our nation.”
Austin Ruse gets his dystopian imagination worked up over “what’s next“:
What’s next? It is hard to tell.
Proponents of abortion thought Roe v. Wade effectively ended that debate, but recent history has shown that to be abundantly false.
But the road ahead is decidedly uphill for those who support traditional marriage. Some have already called for a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Others have called for an incremental battle that would include federal and state protections for those who oppose same-sex marriage. This would include protection for county clerks who may resist issuing same-sex marriage licenses.
The fear now is that the federal government, under urging from the gay community, will work to stamp out any vestige of opposition or even dissent, including eliminating accreditation and tax exempt status for religious schools that do not recognize same-sex marriages.
Rose’s imagination isn’t nearly as colorful as Scott Lively’s though. Lively is positively apocalyptic:’
In response to the ruling, Mr. Obama called it an example of “justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.” That phrase turns logic and morality on its head as it relates to official government endorsement of sexual perversion. But I suspect it will eventually, perhaps very soon, be recognized in retrospect as an unwitting prophecy about God’s punishment on America for what she has just done.
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12:30pm I just received an email from my ex-‘gay’ friend Greg Quinlan informing me that today’s “gay marriage” ruling happens to fall on the anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah in 586BC to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzer: the ninth day of the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar.
“Coincidentally,” in our daily chapter by chapter Bible study at Holy Grounds Coffee House that we began in Genesis more than two years ago, we arrived today at Jeremiah 39, which reads in verse 2: 2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.
Amazing.
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Now consider all of this in light of Revelation 16: 17Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It is done.” 18And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. 19The great city [Jerusalem] was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great [America] was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath. 20And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.
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BradFagan
June 26th, 2015
My eyes are still cheerfully filled with tears after seeing today’s SCOTUS decision affecting same sex marriage across the entire country. As a man born in the ’60’s who came of age in the dark days of AIDS, this decision never seemed possible to me.
Fear, hatred and segregation have always been placed ahead of acceptance of our differences, respect for the beliefs of others and fairness in treatment by our federal and state governments. Our country is often defined by the Constitution’s “sound-bites”; ‘The separation of church and state’ and ‘Equal protection under the law’. But religious beliefs have always colored court decisions and the laws enacted ever since those words were put to paper. Today we see our highest court take a pause from perpetuating that error.
My heartfelt congratulations go to every American who stands today in celebration of their love for their partner, and their marriage, regardless of sexual orientation.
Timothy Kincaid
June 26th, 2015
Wait, was that a tremor I felt? Someone warn Jerusalem.
And if hundred pound hailstones are going to fall today, I’d better make sure the car is in the garage.
Rob
June 26th, 2015
It may be shallow, but it’s kind of fun watching their heads explode.
Priya Lynn
June 26th, 2015
I hate to say it Rob, but that’s my favourite part. Maybe I’m a bit of a sadist when it comes to bigots.
MattNYC
June 26th, 2015
Sam Seder (The Majority Report) is planning to have his 10 year old daughter read Scalia’s ranting dissents next week. I’m buying popcorn :)
Regan DuCasse
June 26th, 2015
Well, the STUPID sure is in high form today coming from those who hate this SCOTUS outcome.
These are people forgetting that historically, the courts have HAD to intervene on behalf of citizens who have endured centuries…decades of abuse.
Were much of the landmark decisions left to a popular vote, I have NO doubt that Jim Crow would still be in effect, and mixed marriages still outlawed in more than half the states.
Justice can’t wait, equality should never have to.
Richard Rush
June 26th, 2015
Heads up: Amidst all the glorious schadenfreude, I think some bigots will heed the TrueChristian call for “
civil disobedience” physical violence. So, I think it behooves us to be on-guard, and maintain a higher caution-level until things settle down.Stephen
June 26th, 2015
I think that Scott Lively’s response is the funniest. ‘Coincidentally’. You go, girl.
CPT_Doom
June 26th, 2015
About two years ago I found out the daughter of one of my mother’s fellow teachers had been killed in the Twin Towers. To equate a ruling that will force “Christians” to accept LGBT people as human beings with the wholesale slaughter of thousands, and the resulting grief, is beyond disgusting.
SharonB
June 29th, 2015
If terror attacks occur in conjunction with July 4th (or whenever within the next 10 years), these arch bigots will salivate and fall all over themselves blaming glbt people and this ruling, instead of the actual terrorists. These bigots are the vilest of scum.
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