restoring our biblical and constitutional foundations
Homosexuality: The Constitution Party Has It Right
Gods Word is clear about homosexuality. It is included in Leviticus among a list of offenses that cause God to vomit out [a lands] inhabitants. The New Testament speaks of homosexuality as a sign that God has given a society up to its own base passions. In Romans Paul describes how women burned with passion for women, men with men, doing things that were unseemly. America has gone just that far.
In my essay Bush Betrays the Pro-Family Agenda Again, But Does Anyone Care? I noted that the presidents decisions on family issues seem to be motivated more by political expediency than by principle. Thats why he can voice his opposition to gay marriage in one breath and in the next appoint sodomites to high office in government and support so-called safe-sex programs.
By default if not by intent, Bush has lent the support of his presidency to the false idea that there is nothing right or wrong and that to teach any substantive ethical precept or idea is to indoctrinate people. Nowhere is this schizophrenic double standard of trying to impose absolutely the idea that there are no absolutes seen more clearly than in the attack on the traditional family structure. More and more conservatives are recognizing this, but they are not dispensing with the myth of Republican conservatism. For some reason, admission of the failure of the prevailing Republican Platform is an impossibility. Deceit, duplicity, double standardswhat could be a more accurate description of a party that calls good evil and evil good?
What we need is a president who consistently upholds biblical morality. At the same time we need a president who is committed to keeping the governments nose in its own business. Thankfully, this presidential election we can uphold both Christian morality and constitutional principles. One candidate, and one candidate only, opposes same-sex marriage yet does so without compromising the tenets of the U.S. Constitution. Writes Chuck Baldwin:
Therefore, if people desire a presidential candidate who truly understands the sanctity of marriage and the limitation of government to meddle with it, there is only one choice: Constitution Party Presidential Candidate, Michael Peroutka. He is the only candidate for president who truly opposes same-sex unions and who also opposes governments usurpation of Gods authority over marriage.
The platform of the Constitution Party places the locus of authority within the family, where it belongs. Listen to what it says:
The law of our Creator defines marriage as the union between one man and one woman. The marriage covenant is the foundation of the family. We affirm, therefore, that no government may authorize or define marriage or family relations contrary to what God has instituted. Parents have the fundamental right and responsibility to nurture, educate, and discipline their children. Assumption of any of these responsibilities by any governmental agency usurps the role of the parents.
Presidential hopeful Michael Peroutka adds: Godly marriage does not need the approval of any civil government. Let me here declare that I oppose homosexual marriage and civil unions, even as I oppose the hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies which President Bush and the Democrats in Congress have supported to promote safe sodomy and underwrite the infrastructure of the homosexual movement.
This position, unpopular though it is among conservatives, is the only one that is consistent both with biblical morality and with constitutional principles of government. That is why Michael Peroutka and the Constitution Party are in the 2004 presidential race.
My friend, have you been holding back from a risky, costly, unpopular course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Why dither when it comes to cheerful self-abandonment to the truth? The same One who made the worlds, and rules them, and ordains all that takes place, from Pharaoh to Nebuchadnezzarthis same God is faithful to you, and adequate for you.
We need never worry about the adequacy of God to provide for all the needs of those who launch out wholeheartedly onto the deep sea of unconventional living in obedience to the call of Christ.
March 26, 2004
David Alan Black is the editor of www.daveblackonline.com. His latest book, Why I Stopped Listening to Rush: Confessions of a Recovering Neocon, will be released this year.