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This past week, the front page of our local newspaper reported that a so-called “fairness ordinance” was being debated by our city council. This has been happening more and more since our U.S. Supreme Court took the side of the homosexuals in a ruling last summer. Now the debate has come to our small mountain town.
What is a “fairness” ordinance anyway? Those who support homosexuality say it is a local ordinance for the purpose of protecting homosexuals from job discrimination, discrimination in government housing, and other tax-funded programs. They mask their purpose by trying to pull other groups (such as minority groups) under the “umbrella” of the ordinance. But when it all shakes down, it results in the homosexual agenda taking more of the rights of other citizens, like those better qualified for a particular job, or an employer who has invested all the “blood, sweat, and tears” to build his business. So-called “fairness” ordinances take away the religious liberty of a church organization by forcing them to hire a homosexual when homosexuality is against the very Bible which that organization exists to teach. What’s “fair” about that?! If so called “fairness” ordinances are allowed to exist at all, they will eventually destroy every liberty which makes life the best it can be on earth.
But the greatest wrong in any so-called “fairness” ordinance, is that it exists because someone wants to live outside the moral boundaries God reveals in the Bible. No honest student of the Bible denies that the Bible condemns homosexuality. It states in the New Testament in Romans 1:
“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
(Romans 1:26-27, 32)
The Bible further warns of judgment on homosexuality in Jude, verse 7,
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah…giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, liberty cannot exist in a society which throws away morality (what our Founders called “virtue”); because only if we control ourselves from within can the rights of others be protected. It is impossible to have both liberty and loose living! Only morality, as defined by the Ten Commandments, can maintain liberty in a society. John Witherspoon, President of Princeton College, and Signer of The Declaration of Independence, stated,
“A Republic must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty…”
(Witherspoon, John. May 17, 1776, in his sermon entitled, “The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men” delivered at The College of New Jersey (Princeton). Lansing Collins, President Witherspoon (New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969), I:197-98. John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution p. 85)
Samuel Adams, Father of our American Revolution which secured our liberty, wrote,
“Revelation assures us that ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation.’ Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character…public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.”
(Adams, Samuel. April 30, 1776, in a letter to John Scollay of Boston. In God We Trust – The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1958), pp. 351-352. S. McDowell and Mark Beliles “Providential Perspective” (The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, VA. 22906, Jan. 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, p.2)
So, is Jesus’ way the truth? Or is the mind of man the truth? Which is the real standard?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—
and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson, this has been Think About It.