Arkansas judge rules against homosexual marriage ban: Apparently he does not consider survival to be in the state’s interest!

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

A county judge in Arkansas has decided to attempt to overturn a law against homosexual marriage:

May 10, 2014

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — About 10 gay couples lined up Saturday morning outside of a county courthouse in northwest Arkansas, one day after a judge ruled that the state’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional.

It isn’t clear whether any same-sex marriage licenses will be issued Saturday, because couples must find a clerk willing to do so.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled Friday that Arkansas’ 2004 voter-approved amendment to the state constitution violates the rights of gay couples. He didn’t put his ruling on hold as some judges in other states have done. http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Gay-couples-in-Arkansas-line-up-outside-courthouse-5467956.php

A county judge in Arkansas struck down his state’s constitutional bans on gay marriage, saying in a ruling Friday night that they did not advance “any conceivable legitimate state interest.”

In finding the ban unconstitutional, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Christopher Piazza cited the series of federal court rulings, including those in Utah and Virginia, that have been issued since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down portions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. That landmark ruling has led to a spate of lawsuits in about a dozen states seeking to topple bans on same-sex marriage…

Piazza said the measures illegally “narrowed the definition of equality.”

“The exclusion of a minority for no rational reason is a dangerous precedent,” he wrote. http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-arkansas-gay-marriage-ban-struck-down-20140509-story.html

One would think that a county judge could not overturn a state law, but the trend in the USA is for judges at nearly all levels to attempt to legalize homosexual marriages. The USA is becoming more of a judgocracy than a democracy.

But the two points I wish to discuss are his comment about a ‘dangerous precedent’ and that homosexual marriage bans do not have “any conceivable legitimate state interest.”

The Bible teaches that homosexuality is a dangerous. Encouraging the homosexual agenda is a ‘dangerous precedent’ that the Bible warns against:

9 The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves. (Isaiah 3:9)

13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate. (Proverbs 8:13)

18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

6…the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly (2 Peter 2:6)

So the Bible shows that Sodom was destroyed for many things including its pride and the committing of abominations. Homosexuality is an abomination. Sodom and Gomorrah were turned into ashes making them an example–but many leaders in the UK, USA, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere do not wish to consider the ramifications of what they are doing. Much of the ‘extreme weather’ that has been going on lately appears related to the increasing acceptance of the homosexual agenda (cf. Amos 4:7-12).

The survival of many in Arkansas and the United States is at risk! To claim that there is not “any conceivable legitimate state interest,” apparently means that the judge in Arkansas does not believe the fact that the Bible warns about this is at all ‘conceivable.’ This is arrogance of a grand scale, and this judge personally needs repentance now. Certainly he can read English–and certainly he has access to a Bible.

The Bible specifically warns against accepting and condoning practices such as homosexuality and lesbianism:

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness…

24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:18,24-32)

The promotion of sexual immorality, including the ‘gay’ agenda, will end in destruction. Ignoring the warnings in the Bible has meant that countries like the USA and UK have also been adding debt that will also contribute to their destruction (Habakkuk 2:6-8; see also yesterday’s post Marketwatch speculates why USA interest rates will remain low–is a disaster truly in the making?).

No one should be ignoring the warnings of the Bible. No one should be pushing the homosexual agenda. Yet, many in the West foolishly are–and this will be to their peril.

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