By Deborah Hamilton
Few were surprised when a panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision striking down Virginia’s voter-approved prohibition against same-sex marriage. After all, the court’s decision continues a trend that courts across American have been following: overturning voter-backed legislation upholding natural law in favor of recognizing the “right” of homosexual couples to marry.
While some view the trend as the unavoidable march of “progress,” noted author, apologist and culture expert Alex McFarland points out that our nation’s Constitution is based on a recognition of natural law, and the rejection of that law will inevitably lead to the loss of our Constitution.
“What’s particularly worrisome about the pathway to the legalization of same-sex marriage is that the only way to travel down this path is to abolish the belief in natural law,” McFarland said. “As any student of our nation’s history understands, our entire system of government is based on the understanding that natural law exists and that it governs our liberties.
“Our own Declaration of Independence directly cites natural law as the basis for declaring independence from Great Britain: ‘When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.’ The rejection of natural law leads neither to liberty nor equality, but rather to anarchy. And this will lead to the end of the U.S. Constitution and the end of our democratic republic.”
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“Our nation’s Constitution is based on a recognition of natural law, and the rejection of that law will inevitably lead to the loss of our Constitution.”
More alarmist junk. “Natural law” comes from the Roman Catholic tradition. Christian conservatives like the National Organization for Marriage have picked up the term as they scramble to find some rationale for opposing marriage equality. Thanks to them, it’s become just more right-wing code for anti-gay bigotry.
The federal courts cannot change the natural law of gravity and they cannot change God’s physical law of men and women and how they were made for each other.
If any reader is unfamiliar with the idea of natural law, please do not let yourself be fooled into thinking that it is merely Roman Catholic–or that it is merely a code-word for anti-gay bigotry. Jim, here, is just indulging in some name-calling of people and ideas that he does not like.
There is an ultimate moral way that every human is responsible to uphold, and ‘natural law’ is one very long established way of talking about this. Jesus and the Apostle Paul spoke in many ways that were consonant with this.
^^^ Horse apples
(to Jim Phoenix’s comment, not Kevin R’s)
‘merely Roman Catholic’
keep talkin boys, and you’ll both have a lot of x-plainin to do
Thanks to them, it’s become just more right-wing code for anti-gay bigotry.
So if I am anti-gay, which I am, I am a bigot, but the truth is GAYS are the bigots by far letting us know how oppressed they are by our out dated laws and Holy Bible. Gays want, and will never get a world of their own unless Gays leave the planet which would be fine by me, and in the meantime, if gays do not like what is going on in America, MOVE, you will not be missed, and if Gays do not repent of their sin, the Lake of Fire, Rev. 22.