The battle over gay ‘marriage’ is heating up, in American courts. (HT: FrontPorchPolitics)
A battle over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman appears headed for the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled Thursday that denying benefits to married gay couples is unconstitutional.
In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston said the 1996 law deprives gay couples of the rights and privileges granted to heterosexual couples.
FrontPorchPolitics comments:
There can be no doubt that our nation is receiving the judgment of God. We are on the very brink of making something God calls an abomination an honorable thing and the twisting of the definition of marriage to be that which is something completely deviant and unholy. May God have mercy upon us.
God didn’t write the constitution. Man did. God had nothing to do with it.
Indeed, and as a Canadian, I do sometimes find arguments by some Americans that appeal to the Constitution as if it were a holy document, and the Founding Fathers (‘What would the Founding Fathers think if they saw us, today?’) as if they were early Church fathers, like those who hammered out the creeds, a bit eye-rolling-inducing. Nevertheless, as a Christian, I have much sympathy for the notion that a nation that, to begin with, was fairly Christian in terms of the culture and the majority of the populace, turning away from God, will indeed suffer His wrath for doing so. I don’t expect anyone not Christian to understand or agree, of course.