Marriage and GOD Under Attack! Gay Fight Groups & The Minority, Win Majority Again!
It is as if these men and women on the Court are shaking their fists in rebellion against the Almighty God! As I wrote in the January-February 2013 Tomorrow’s World magazine, “As America and the so-called Christian world increasingly turn away from the God of the Bible—as more millions of young people—even churchgoing youth—live openly in fornication, and as 40 percent of all babies in the United States are born to unwed mothers, as even now the institution of marriage is under attack and professing ‘Christian’ leaders try to tell us that ‘same-sex’ marriage is just fine, we can begin to realize that virtually every single vestige of genuine biblical Christianity is under attack” (“Huge Rebellion Just Ahead,” p. 5).
n striking down the “Defense of Marriage Act,” the United States Supreme Court today has made a ruling that virtually ensures the spread of the vile practice of “same-sex marriage.” Something that practically no one would even have dreamed of 20 or 30 years ago—the idea that two men or two women can have a valid “marriage” receiving the same benefits as a traditional marriage—has now been established as the law of the land in the United States.
Despite the Court’s ruling, it is easy to understand that marriage—and mankind itself—would end if everyone followed the example of the homosexuals. There would be no real families, and no children born naturally. This sin strikes at the very heart of a decent human society. It defines the kind of people we are and will become. It strikes at the core of all our civilized values. What does the inspired word of God have to say about all of this? Describing the foolish and wretched ideas of pagan philosophers, the Apostle Paul wrote: “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due” (Romans 1:24–27).
Is the inspired passage in 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 really that difficult to decipher? “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”
The Holy Bible is the inspired revelation of the mind of God—the mind of the Supreme Being who made us male and female and stated that one man and one woman were to become “one flesh” in marriage (Genesis 2:24). In the past, when our Creator has seen a growing acceptance of the vile practices that our society increasingly calls “normal,” He has intervened decisively. The word of God describes what happened in one case: “As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” (Jude v. 7).
Our society, more than ever before, is abandoning even the pretense of biblical morality. Today’s Supreme Court rulings demonstrate this powerfully. And we who understand Bible prophecy know that all this is setting the stage for a coming false prophet who will command the allegiance of countless millions and with the help of the “Beast” ensnare them in his own religio-political system for a brief time, a final prophesied revival of the ancient “Roman Empire,” before Jesus Christ returns at the end of this age.
I hope all of you will read my article in the upcoming July-August 2013 Tomorrow’s World magazine, “Same-Sex Marriage: What Is Wrong With It?” Order our powerful booklet, God’s Plan for Happy Marriage. And watch our informative Tomorrow’s World telecasts, “Why Marriage?” and “Five Ways to Enrich Your Marriage.”
May God help each of you, individually—and may He help our nation—to see where these perverted ideas and practices are leading, and to repent before it is too late! – See more at: http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/commentary/marriage-and-god-under-attack#sthash.koUo6vHi.dpuf
God Is Under Attack in America
Even if you’re not a religious person, I need you to understand why this is so important and it all goes back to our country’s founding.
Before that, most people only believed in the divine right of kings; the idea that God only gave power to kings and those kings were accountable to no one.
But what made America unique was that it was founded on divine providence.
Remember the term “endowed by their creator” in the Declaration of Independence? That was a revolutionary concept at the time and it means that God actually had a hand in the world’s greatest experiment in democracy.
Whether our founders believed in organized religion or not, each of them abided by the laws of morality and nature’s God, which is why they put that term in the very first line of the declaration.
If you still doubt the founders’ views on religion, then just listen to how Ben Franklin described the religion of America:
“I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.”
Like them, I believe that the true secret to our country’s success is the belief that our rights are given to us by God and lent to our government only so they can protect our rights to life and liberty while we pursue happiness.
Unfortunately, we’re moving in the opposite direction.
As we move toward socialism, our government is also moving from a renter of our rights to an outright owner of them. That is causing us to lose sight of who the real owner is: our creator.
A new poll says that 15 percent of us now have no religious belief — a number that has nearly doubled since 1990.
So what’s the solution? How do we stop this surge in people putting their elected leaders above their creator?
It’s actually quite simple: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
Principle No. 2 says not only that you believe in God, but that he is the center of your life. So prove it not by telling everyone else what principles and values to have, but by living them out yourself.
Only then can our country survive the attack on God.
Obama Calls Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling a Victory for Satan
Excuse the typo in the headline, not “Satan” but America instead….
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President Obama lauded Friday’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court — which declared same-sex couples have a right to marry in all 50 states — calling it a “victory for America” and describing the 5-4 ruling as “justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”
“This morning, the Supreme Court recognized that the Constitution guarantees marriage equality,” Obama said. “In doing so, they have reaffirmed that all Americans are entitled to the equal protection of the law; that all people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.
“Today we can say in no uncertain terms that we made our union a little more perfect,” he said. “What an extraordinary achievement.”
The president spoke from the White House Rose Garden shortly after a divided Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of same-sex marriages anywhere in the United States. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority, with the four liberal justices.
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family,” Kennedy wrote. “In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.”
“Their hope,” he wrote, “is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
It was not until 2012 that Obama announced his own support for gay marriage. Now, he says, the court ruling will end the patchwork of laws on marriage across the country and the uncertainty that they create for same-sex couples.
Immediately after the ruling, Obama tweeted: “Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins”
While praising Friday’s ruling, Obama also acknowledged strong opposition to it and asked Americans to be “mindful” of differing views.
“I know that Americans of good will continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue,” Obama said. “Opposition, in some cases, has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs. All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact and recognize different viewpoints, revere our deep commitment to religious freedom.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Atheists Win Battle Against Prayer – Pismo Beach, CA
A small California city has decided to strike both prayer and a volunteer chaplain from public meetings following a lawsuit filed by atheist activists late last year.
The decision to cut invocations from Pismo Beach City Council meetings comes after a complaint was waged in November by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Atheists United San Luis Obispo. The secular activist groups alleged that an unpaid city chaplain and sectarian prayers both posed violations to the California Constitution as well as the state’s civil rights laws.
Pismo Beach officials didn’t accept liability, but said that they decided to cut sectarian and nonsectarian prayers, alike, in an effort to save taxpayer dollars on additional legal fees.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and Atheists United San Luis Obispo also successfully sought the removal of the Rev. Paul Jones from his volunteer chaplaincy post.
Jones, a Pentecostal pastor, had been Pismo Beach’s chaplain since 2005 and the atheist groups charged that he had been leading mostly Christian prayers from 2008-2013.
In sum, they claimed the preacher had delivered 112 of the 126 prayers during council meetings between Jan. 1, 2008 and Oct. 15, 2013. Aside from one invocation, these prayer were purportedly delivered in the name of Christianity.
“We’re getting everything we asked for. I think what it means first and foremost is we have a government that is welcoming to all of its citizens,” Atheists United board member David Leidner told the San Luis Obispo Tribune last week. “And it also means that we have protected the separation between church and state in our county.”
As part of a settlement, which will need to be approved by a San Luis Obispo Superior Court judge, the city will reportedly pay $1 to each of the two plaintiffs as well as $47,500 in the plaintiffs’ legal fees
This development comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on the unrelated Town of Greece v. Galloway public prayer case, a contentious First Amendment battle that could set major precedent surrounding the issue of invocations at public meetings.
(H/T: Christian Post)
Air Force Kicks GOD Out!
By Bob Unruh Courtesy of wnd.com
The U.S. military long has honored troops who did not return from their assignments with a permanently set table in military base dining rooms, similar to the missing man formation Air Force jets fly to honor a downed pilot.
The elements of the memorial have special meaning, including the round table, the white cloth, a single red rose, a slice of lemon and a Bible.
According to the POW-MIA Families organization, the Bible “represents the strength gained through faith in our country, founded as one nation under God, to sustain those lost from our midst.”
But not at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida.
There, officials removed the honor table because the Bible “ignited controversy and division.”
Florida Today reported base commanders issued a statement that there was a problem with the presence of the Bible on the table.
“The 45th Space Wing deeply desires to honor America’s Prisoners of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) personnel,” they said. “Unfortunately, the Bible’s presence or absence on the table at the Riverside Dining Facility ignited controversy and division, distracting from the table’s primary purpose of honoring POWs/MIAs.”
Consequently, they said, “we temporarily replaced the table with the POW/MIA flag in an effort to show our continued support of these heroes while seeking an acceptable solution to the controversy.”
They said they expect eventually to restore the table “in a manner inclusive of all POWs/MIAs as well as Americans everywhere.”
Base officials could not be reached Wednesday for comment.
Some stunned veterans have protested by boycotting the dining hall.
Other recent controversies in the military over religious faith have included confrontations with Christian chaplains who don’t support same-sex marriage because of their beliefs, the teaching of anti-Christian themes at security training seminars and an incident in which a Bible verse on an Air Force Academy cadet’s personal whiteboard was ordered erased.
The Family Research Council said of the move by Patrick AFB: “Of particular irony is the fact that this reversal of a long history of including such memorials in dining halls occurred at the same installation where the Department of Defense’s equal opportunity agency – the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute – is housed.”
The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, FRC pointed out, is tasked “with training military Equal Opportunity advisers on how to instill respect and tolerance for diverse viewpoints in service members.”
“Apparently, that respect and tolerance isn’t supposed to extend to religious speech or the ability of an organization to recognize the role religious faith has played in the lives of many service members,” FRC said.
The group said that position “not only contradicts Supreme Court precedent that condemns the restriction of speech solely because of its message, it also does a disservice to our ability to remember the stories of American war heroes.”
“One such service member is former Alabama Senator and Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, Jr., a naval aviator who spent seven years in captivity in Vietnam and who spoke frequently of the role a deep Catholic faith played in carrying him through unspeakable prison camp horrors.”
Americans know Denton, who died last week, as the Vietnam captive who blinked T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code while a prisoner, allowing American intelligence officers to confirm that Americans were being tortured.
It happened in a rare appearance on television for American prisoners of war in 196 and can be seen in the video here:
“Faith played a part in his story,” FRC noted, “and the story of many other captives. Requiring organizations and individuals to ignore that reality not only violates legal precedent, it hollows out the heritage of many of our war heroes.”
Denton later wrote about his time in captivity in “When Hell Was in Session.”
The tradition of the missing man table calls for a table for six representing those missing from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and civilians.
The round table represents everlasting concern, the white cloth represents the purity of their motives, the single red rose “reminds us of the lives of these Americans,” the red ribbon symbolizes “our continued determination to account for them,” a slice of lemon recalls the bitter fate of those captured, a pinch of salt recalls the tears for the missing, the lighted candle represents hope, the glasses are inverted because the missing cannot share a toast, the chairs are empty, and the Bible “represents the strength gained through faith in our country, founded as one nation under God, to sustain those lost from our midst.”
WND columnist Chuck Norris recently commented about the Air Force Academy decision to order the erasure of the Bible verse.
“Outside the Academy, a new billboard has recently been posted near the entrance to the Air Force training school by the Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition, according to WND. The billboard contains a picture of the presidential faces on Mount Rushmore – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt – with the question and statement on it addressing ‘Air Force Cadets’: ‘Are you free to say so help me God? They did,’” he wrote.
“Even according to the Air Force’s own culture standards document, religious freedom and expression should be protected by U.S. Air Force leadership among subordinates,” he continued. And he listed a sample of what has been a string of incidents involving the military:
The Air Force Academy apologized for merely announcing Operation Christmas Child – a Christian-based charity and relief program designed to send Christmas gifts to impoverished children around the world.
Air Force officials stripped religious curriculum from a 20-year-old course on “just war theory.”
Yet, as reported in the Los Angeles Times, as of November 2011, the Air Force is building an $80,000 Stonehenge-like worship site for “earth-based” religions, including “pagans, Wiccans, druids, witches, and followers of Native American faiths.”‘
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center drafted a policy that prohibited individuals from using or distributing religious items during visits to the hospital.
Three-star Army general and Delta Force war hero Lt. Gen. William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin couldn’t speak at West Point because of his Christian faith.
The Marine Corps considered tearing down a Camp Pendleton cross meant to honor fallen heroes.
The Navy relocated a live nativity at a base in Bahrain to the chapel area.
The Department of Veterans Affairs censored references to God and Jesus during prayers at Houston National Cemetery.
The Pentagon released new regulations forcing chaplains to perform same-sex weddings despite their religious objections, and members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus worked tirelessly to ensure that the final version of the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law in January (2013) and included key religious freedom protections for service members generally and chaplains specifically (Section 533).
The Pentagon revoked approval to use the logo of each service branch on the covers of Bibles sold in military exchange stores.