To the World from America: Last Friday night, June 26, 2015 the White House glowed with the giddy colors of the rainbow as the President celebrated same sex marriage.  The light display was an in-your-face symbol that, in the wake of the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and same sex marriage, everything has changed.  It was the flaunted demonstration that the wicked now reign in America.

In the Obamacare case, the Supreme Court struck what may well be a fatal blow against the rule of law.  It decided that words carry no meaning, that what the law plainly states has no bearing, and that an unrestrained chief executive may create or alter laws according to his own arbitrary desires.  Government of the people, by the people, and for the people: RIP. 

The rule of law is the first and last defense that guarantees protection and equal justice to free people.  It is true that in the future, here and there, the laws enacted by the people’s representatives may still be upheld.  But one can no longer count on this, especially if an appeal reaches the highest court.

In the case on same sex marriage, five unelected lawyers determined that they may dictate to 330,000,000 others.  In other parlance that is called tyranny.  The majority manufactured a right to same sex marriage out of thin air, certainly not from the words of the Constitution.  In doing so they overturned the laws of eighteen states and trampled on the expressed will of the majority in thirty states where once marriage was defined as between one man and one woman.

To compound the arrogance, the Court has with gall and audacity dared to negate the law of God, a law that has been the bedrock of human civilization since the dawn of the human race--as if they actually had that authority! Since they do not, it must be stated clearly for all to hear that the Court’s ruling is null and void.  It carries no authority whatsoever.  It is true that with the backing of the United States government the new rule on marriage can be coerced.  The people may be made to submit.  But no citizen has the moral obligation to obey its command.  Instead there is the higher Law, established in the heavens, the revealed Law of Nature and Nature’s God.  And we appeal to it. It is madness to author a rebellion against the Ruler of the Universe.  But there it is.

As a result, it must be proclaimed boldly, that those of us who serve the Living God, will not comply, no matter how much pressure is brought to bear upon us.  Indeed, we cannot comply, for we are wedded to the higher Law.  We will resist with grace and loving actions.  But we will resist till death do us part!

But this is just the point.  Justice Alito in his scathing dissent stated, “I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their own homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.”  The majority went to lengths to assure us that we retain the right to dissent.  However, what was missing from their soothing words was an expression of our right to practice what we believe.  I doubt that it will be long before the victorious new rulers of our nation will begin to chip away at churches and Christian organizations and non-profit ministries, first going after our tax exempt status in an attempt to ruin us financially, then following up with fines and penalties.  Employers will begin to punish nonconforming employees.  I expect it is going to get “bloody.”  And very soon. 

“No, no, that will not happen.  People of good will can coexist!”  I can hear it now.  But that is not likely to occur.  The apostle Paul wrote to the Christians in Thessalonica to remind them that he had encountered “much opposition” when he tried to proclaim “the gospel of God.”  (I Thessalonians 2:2)The gospel of God includes the wonderful truth that God can, and indeed is willing, to forgive any sin, no matter how awful, if one will place his faith in Jesus Christ who paid the penalty for sin, and then rose from the dead.  But part of the deal is that a person must repent of his sin, and one sin among many that must be repented of, is homosexual practice.  (I Corinthians 6:9)

That means that the beautiful gospel of Jesus Christ stands in fundamental opposition to same sex marriage.  It is one or the other.  No wonder they will hate us if we dare to speak—even if we speak in beseeching love.

Paul went on to remind the Thessalonians that like the Christians in Judea who were persecuted by their neighbors, the believers in Thessalonica  “endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen.” (2:14)  In other words, persecution comes not from some invading army or from foreigners, but from our friends and neighbors, the people that we like and work alongside or attend school with.  Opponents of God always end up doing the same things whenever they gain opportunity.  Paul says they “killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out.” (v 15)  And they will again.

With the protection of the law removed, and with arbitrary power now free to do whatever it wishes without restraint, we can easily expect things to go from bad to worse.  America is changed.  It does not look different as I write these words.  The Fourth of July will be celebrated in communities with fireworks and parades and with the Stars and Stripes flying proudly.  It will not feel different.  But soon you will see it.  Indeed it has already begun against bakers and photographers and wedding caterers.

We must stand firm.  We must resist.  We must link hands with those who become the first targets.  Make the word known: the unending struggle for righteousness will go on until Jesus himself comes to set things right.