President Obama has announced his support for homosexual marriage.
Woop de doo! God announced His position on the issue since the dawn of creation. Homosexuality is wrong. Period.
And thus, a nation founded upon Judeo-Christian principles now finds its chosen leader abandoning those principles in favor of political expediency.
Leviticus 18:22 says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination”.
And in First Corinthians 6:9, Scripture says, “Be not deceived, neither fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexual) shall inherit the Kingdom of God.”
You’d think that would settle the issue. But it doesn’t.
You see, ever since 1962, and by some reckoning, even earlier than that, we have gradually and systematically removed God from the public square. Nativity scenes were routine in the 1950’s and even the 1960’s, but put one up today around Christmas time and the ACLU goes bananas.
In fact, a number of retailers have forbidden their employees to say, “Merry Christmas”. Christmas itself is being replaced by “Holiday”.
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, wants to focus on the economy.
But we can’t fix that if we don’t get this God thing right.
Once upon a time this nation sent missionaries into every corner of the globe to spread the Gospel or Good News. And this nation profited. We became the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
Now, you don’t think that was an accidental coincidence, do you?
Our patriots have confirmed our foundation rests upon Judeo Christian principles. Patrick Henry affirmed that this nation was not founded by religionists but by Christians, and on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our presidents have proclaimed faith in God and the power of prayer. George Washington asserted that:
The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained .
President Washington made that statement during his first Inaugural Address in 1789. Abraham Lincoln warned us in 1863 that:
“But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
In our own day, two presidents have opened their Inaugural Address with a prayer, Dwight Eisenhower and George H. W. Bush.
Unfortunately, the current occupant of the White House chooses to assume a position completely at variance with God’s stated views on the subject.
Neither candidate for the presidency in 2012 places Jesus Christ in His proper place. How did we come to this?
Ronald Reagan reminded us that if we ever forget we are one nation under God we will be a nation gone under. Will we see the fulfillment of that in our lifetime?
Our economy is out of control. Our current president seems to think that all of our problems will be solved by a large influx of cash by government as government takes over more and more of our daily lives.
Our liberties are leaking like a seive.
We cannot fix this ourselves. Only restoring God to His proper place will fix what ails our nation. If we fail to do that, we’re in big trouble no matter who wins in November.
God help us.