Our America: A Nation In Decay
[Originally written and published on searchwarp.com in 2008]
For years, the uproar regarding the same-sex marriage issue in the United States has been deafening.
On Thursday, May 15, 2008, California’s Supreme Court declared that gay couples in the nation’s most populous state can marry legally. This historical ruling is a monumental victory for the entire gay community.
“Essentially, this boils down to love. We love each other. We now have equal rights under the law,” declared an ecstatic Robin Tyler, a plaintiff in the case. She added: “We’re going to get married. No Tupperware, please.”
A jubilant crowd of people raised their fists in triumph inside City Hall and people wrapped themselves in the rainbow-colored gay-pride flag outside the courthouse. By the afternoon, gay and lesbian couples had already started lining up at San Francisco City Hall to make appointments to get marriage licenses.
James Dobson, chairman of the conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family,” called the ruling an outrage. In an e-mail statement, he wrote, “It will be up to the people of California to preserve traditional marriage by passing a constitutional amendment…. Only then can they protect themselves from this latest example of judicial tyranny.”
In its 4-3 ruling, the Republican-dominated high court struck down state laws against same-sex marriage and said domestic partnerships that provide many of the rights and benefits of matrimony are not enough. “In contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation,” Chief Justice Ronald George wrote for the majority in ringing language that delighted gay rights activists.
This historical ruling, for me, is another demonstration of America’s [decaying] “contemporary value system.”
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Am I against gay people? No. I personally have many friends who are gay. Let me put it this way: it is sorta like “love the sinner / hate the sin.”
There is a tendency for many Christians to declare that being gay is the worst of all sins. While homosexuality is undeniable immoral and unnatural, in no sense does the Bible describe homosexuality as an unforgivable sin. Nor does the Bible teach that homosexuality is a sin Christians will never struggle against.
Some strongly heterosexual men and women have admitted they’ve experienced slight homosexual urges at some point in their lives. Whether or not these desires and temptations exist does not determine whether a person is Godly. The Bible is clear that nobody is sinless (1 John 1:8,10). While the specific sin or temptation varies from one person to another, all human beings struggle with sin, and all Christians sometimes fail in those struggles.
In other words, there is no human being who is not battling with some sort of temptation or “demon.”
It’s what we do with “our inner demons” that matters.
With Thursday’s ruling, America is again refusing to understand that God is the same today, tomorrow and yesterday.
He hasn’t changed; we have. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is. And I believe that our God is truly weeping over our America because…
…America is increasingly rejecting God. As a result, our nation is experiencing unparalleled moral decay. National immorality flourishes when the hearts of a nation reject God and His principles. Simply stated, “Spiritual decline leads to moral decay!“
When there is a vacuum of immorality in a society, it stands to reason that something will come to fill it. There has been an influx of decadence raging across our America: alcoholism, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, abortion, homosexuality, school violence, child abuse, pornography, rape, robbery and murder pervade our nation. And now it’s okay for a child to be raised with two mommy’s or two daddy’s.
And now it’s okay for a child to be raised with two mommy’s or two daddy’s….
Wow, that’s giving our children something to look up to.
Historically, we are living in “an anything goes” society.
America is drowning in wickedness and immorality. By all measures, this influx has eroded the moral and political foundations that our America was originally founded upon. As God and His principles continue to be systematically and incrementally removed from our America, our nation and individuals will continue to experience even greater moral decay.
As George Washington so wisely once warned, “… Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle.”
And…
George Mason, the Father of the Bill of Rights, said, “As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.”
Contemporary moral values? Our America no longer has any values.
Lord, please open the hearts of those that refuse to hear You and come back to our America… we need you.
