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Why is the morality question missing in the same-sex marriage debate?
By JIM REED
establishment of religion, or prohibiting In the early 1950s our nation officially were tethering the morals of our nation to
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the adopted “In God we trust” as the national a higher law.
If we are mere animals, then there are no
freedom of speech, or of the press, or the motto, added “under God” in the Pledge of To state that moral law and civil law do
moral laws other than what any group of
right of the people peaceably to assemble, Allegiance and established a National Day not mix is a huge mistake, which, history
people may choose. If we are created in the
and to petition the government for a redress of Prayer. This all took place in a matter has proven again and again, ultimately
image of God, then there are moral laws
of grievances. of three years. What was going on in the leads to the destruction of life. Therefore,
that transcend all of humanity. This has
The first clause has been called the world back then? the best starting place for discussing same-
been called the “Higher Law” argument.
“Establishment Clause.” The second Communist Russia was threatening sex marriage is indeed the moral law. It is
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clause has been called the “Free Exercise the well-being of the western world. this very moral law that is being ignored in
Clause.” We often hear of the Establishment We had already seen what Stalin had the debate on same-sex marriage. If we are
Our founding fathers raised this issue Clause, but the Free Exercise Clause has
done. He murdered millions of his mere animals, then let’s do what animals
in the Declaration of Independence when been, unfortunately, seldom mentioned
own people. Khrushchev, his successor, do and may the strongest survive. If we
they wrote: “We hold these truths to be — almost to the point of being forgotten.
promised to bury us. We knew the moral are endowed by our Creator with certain
self-evident, that all men are created equal, Our nation was founded under the
premise undergirding both Stalin’s and transcendent moral laws, it would be only
that they are endowed by their Creator, premise that the government would not
Khrushchev’s communism that could inviting disaster to turn our backs to this
with certain unalienable rights that among establish a religion. When the founding
justify the murder of millions. reality. The attack on sexual morality will
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of fathers ratified the Bill of Rights they knew
The move in the early 1950s was an effort not stop at marriage. There will be no higher
happiness.” They saw it to be “self-evident” what they were doing. They lived in the
to reaffirm the Judeo-Christian ethic that law to stop the next moral descent to the
that the moral basis for law came from our shadow of the heritage of the pilgrims
is at the foundation of the United States lowest common denominator. There must
Creator and therefore certain laws could who came to this continent to escape
of America. The Judeo-Christian ethic be something in this life that is much more
be deemed immoral based on the premise the ill effects of government sponsored
would insure that our nation would be than common. There must be some things
of higher law. religion. There is a world of difference
guided by values that would transcend sacred. The moral foundation of this nation
The First Amendment to the Bill of between the establishment of a religion
the politics and the power of any human is one of them.
Rights in our Constitution has six clauses: and the establishment of morals based on
government — our own included. Our o
Congress shall make no law respecting an higher law.
leaders then, just like our founding fathers, Jim Reed is pastor of Lake Murray Church in La
knew what they were doing. They were Mesa, lakemurraychurch.org. He invites readers
America’s ‘belief’ . . .
not at all establishing a religion, but they to his website, www.christianlifetools.org.
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Every Christian voter must examine
Do you have room in your heart
academia without God leads to. Many of whom he votes for.
the students paraded on campus with red Belief in God and tolerating the filth and your home for a person with a
flags. The majority believed in free sex and in the State of California is indicative of
even tolerated sexual anomalies. Finally, non-belief. Abortion-on-demand is willful
developmental disability?
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Jesus Christ. of the unborn is not permitted. Now,
Today, in all Christian churches people after more than 40,000,000 murders of the
fail to see that faith without action to back unborn, we still have abortuaries working
up faith is no faith at all. Why are we not full-time in the United States. The ocean
building a school in every church? The of blood of the innocents cries to heaven Equipped to Serve
public schools are dead. Recent scandals for vengeance.
of teachers seducing students are the tip of As Steve Gallagher, a Kentucky
an iceberg. In colleges and universities with evangelist, has said, sexual idolatry is the
co-ed dorms, no girl is safe. Indeed in the new moloch of America. A nation that
public grammar schools, children are being worships this moloch is doomed. The
morally corrupted at a very young age. The Muslim terrorists constantly teach their
churches must create a massive new school trainees that America has no morality, and
and college system. The California public must be destroyed.
schools and colleges are moral diabolical And as all this continues, what else is
hell-holes. Christians, when will you wake happening? Americans are becoming fat,
up? I raise my precious child to the age luxury-loving, dumber and more illiterate
of six and then, will I toss the child into every day. TV proves this. Does this sound
the mouth of the moloch public school to like a country that believes in God? Give
be consumed? Every church leader who me a break.
refuses to build a school and allows the o
children of Christians to be educated in Michael Suozzi lives in La Mesa and taught
the public schools is a fool. Faith without history, geo-politics, and the social sciences in
action is not faith; it is hypocrisy. colleges in four states.
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