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The Left's War On Christians
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Title: We will not obey: Christian leaders threaten civil disobedience if Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015 ... disobedience-if-supreme-court/
Published: Apr 28, 2015
Author: By Todd Starnes
Post Date: 2015-04-28 23:19:07 by out damned spot
Keywords: Christian, Supreme Court, civil disobedience
Views: 29801
Comments: 140

"We will not obey.”

That’s the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.

“We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not to cross that line,” read a document titled, Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage. “We stand united together in defense of marriage. Make no mistake about our resolve.”

“While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the natural order and the common good that this is the line we must draw and one we cannot and will not cross,” the pledge states.

The signees are a who’s who of religious leaders including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, National Religious Broadcasters president Jerry Johnson, Pastor John Hagee, and Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse.

The pledge was co-drafted by Deacon Keith Fournier, a Catholic deacon, and Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel. Also involved in the document were Rick Scarborough, the president of Vision America Action and James Dobson, the founder of Family Talk Radio.

“We’re sending a warning to the Supreme Court and frankly any court that crosses the line on the issue of marriage,” Staver told me.

He said that once same-sex marriage is elevated to the level of protected status – it will transform the face of society and will result in the “beginning of the end of Western Civilization.”

“You are essentially saying that boys and girls don’t need moms and dads – that moms and dads are irrelevant,” Staver said. “Gender becomes pointless when government adopts same-sex marriage. It creates a genderless relationship out of a very gender-specific relationship. It says that it doesn’t matter and that two moms or two dads are absolutely equivalent to a mom and a dad.”

Dobson said the legalization of same-sex marriage could fracture the nation.

“The institution of marriage is fundamental and it must be defended,” he told me. “It’s the foundation for the entire culture. It’s been in existence for 5,000 years. If you weaken it or if you undermine it – the entire superstructure can come down. We see it as that important.”

And that means the possibility of Christians – people of faith – engaging in acts of civil disobedience.

“Yes, I’m talking about civil disobedience,” Staver said. “I’m talking about resistance and I’m talking about peaceful resistance against unjust laws and unjust rulings.”

That’s quite a shocking statement. So I asked Mr. Staver to clarify his remarks.

“I’m calling for people to not recognize the legitimacy of that ruling because it’s not grounded in the Rule of Law,” he told me. “They need to resist that ruling in every way possible. In a peaceful way – they need to resist it as much as Martin Luther King, Jr. resisted unjust laws in his time.”

Scarborough said the pledge was meant to be forthright and clear.

“We’re facing a real Constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court rules adversely from our perspective on same-sex marriage,” he told me. For me there’s no option. I’m going to choose to serve the Lord. And I think that thousands of other pastors will take that position and hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Christians.”

Scarborough is urging pastors across the nation to sign the pledge.

He referenced the “outrageous penalties” being assessed against people of faith simply because they don’t want to participate in a same-sex union.

An Oregon bakery is facing a $135,000 fine for refusing to make a cake for a lesbian wedding and a Washington State florist faces fines for refusing to participate in a gay wedding.

“Christians are being declared the lawbreakers when we are simply living by what we have always believed, and by a set of laws that the culture historically has agreed to,” he said. “Right now the courts are changing the playing field and declaring that what the natural eye can see and natural law reveals is not truth. ... What will we do, and how will we respond?”

Dobson said there’s no doubt that LGBT activists are targeting Christian business owners.

“For about 50 years the homosexual community has had as its goal to change the culture, to change the ideology and if necessary – to force people who don’t agree by use of the courts,” Dobson told me. “I think there’s a collision here and we can all see it and where it’s going to go is anybody’s guess – but it is serious.”

To be clear – the men and women who courageously signed this pledge did so knowing the hell storm that is about to be unleashed on them – and their families.

“We have no choice,” Staver told me. “We cannot compromise our clear biblical convictions, our religious convictions.

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#5. To: out damned spot (#0)

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

These folks are fighting a losing battle.
Nobody is forcing them to abandon their personal their personal beliefs.
However, there are "leaders" of other Christian denominations, as well as Jewish, Scientologist, Agnostic, Buddhist, Muslim (although I doubt it), Wiccan and whatever else you can come up with "leaders" who favor gay marriage.

The SCOTUS interprets our laws based on the Consitution, NOT the Christian Bible.
Even if SCOTUS defers to the 10th Amendment, gay marriage acieves status akin to the Sunday Blue Laws: inconsistant from state to state, but eventually achieving national recognition as religious intolerance wanes.

Willie Green  posted on  2015-04-29   7:15:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Willie Green (#5)

"The SCOTUS interprets our laws based on the Consitution, NOT the Christian Bible."

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-- John Adams

misterwhite  posted on  2015-04-29   8:58:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: misterwhite, liberator, CZ82, GarySpFc (#8)

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Adams

Had to show that quote again. Spot on.

Next step is for the homosexual lobby to define their proclivities as 'moral.'

Unattributed to a retired SGM...:

"When I joined the Army being gay was against regulations...Then it was ok as long as you did not talk about it...Then it was legal and lauded...I'm retiring before they make it mandatory!"

redleghunter  posted on  2015-04-29   11:03:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: redleghunter, Liberator, GarySpFc, Too Conservative (#24) (Edited)

Have you been keeping up with the USSC case on homo marriage??

If you haven't what do you think this little statement made by Roberts yesterday during oral arguments means... "If Sue loves Joe and Tom loves Joe, Sue could marry him and Tom can't. Why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination"?

Everybody seems to think Kennedy is gonna be the swing vote but after seeing that I'm not so sure his vote will matter..

CZ82  posted on  2015-04-29   19:14:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#51. To: CZ82 (#46)

SCOTUS oral arguments are weird. My observations have been justices will ask opposing arguments to the lawyers. For example the Sue, Joe and Tom question was probably posed to the side opposing homosexual "marriage."

I remember Sotomeyer, the wise Latina, asking a leading question to the government SG reference the legality of Obamacare when that was before the SCOTUS. You had conservative pundits gushing over a lib on the court making their argument.

It turned out different of course.

It is their way of shaking down key arguments to see if they are valid and if the court should even consider them.

These lawyers come in with hundreds of "legal precedence" briefings and the court has to weed out the fluff.

redleghunter  posted on  2015-04-30 00:32:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: CZ82, redleghunter, BobCeleste, GarySpFc, Too Conservative, A K A Stone, stoner, Zesta, SOSO (#46)

Have you been keeping up with the USSC case on homo marriage??

If you haven't what do you think this little statement made by Roberts yesterday during oral arguments means...

"If Sue loves Joe and Tom loves Joe, Sue could marry him and Tom can't. Why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination"?

Your quote of Roberts -- he's preemptively signaling his obvious pro-gay argument FOR Queer Marriage. I reckon immediately after THIS decision, he'll be on another flight to another isolated "island" -- this time..it just might be into the safe waiting arms of Pope Franco at The Vatican. Roberts has had his own homo-ticket punched as he inexplicably voted for Zero's Death Care. He has been THE Trojan Horse lib chosen by Dubya since Day One.

Everybody seems to think Kennedy is gonna be the swing vote but after seeing that I'm not so sure his vote will matter...

I agree. Roberts negates Kennedy (who also seems to be in the bag of the fags. Maybe both "Catholic consciences" of Roberts and Kennedy will speak to them (I doubt it.)

With not a single Protestant on the SCOTUS (inexplicably), but 3 Jews, 6(!!) Catholics, and 3 Queers aboard, we should have expected the Republic to tank...and quickly. And it HAS.

Catholics-in-High Places, were they more about God's Law and the Protestant Founders' Constitutional intent and common sense -- and less about Man's Law -- could have prevented the mess that has become a chaotic Liberal, unprincipled America.

Liberator  posted on  2015-04-30 11:38:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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