It has been rightfully observed that Rome did not fall in a day. Neither was Rome brought down from without, but from within. It was not the sudden surprise attack of an external enemy, but the slow corrosion of internal corruption that brought about Rome’s demise.

Since many have written about the similarities between the present course of our country and the pathway Rome followed to its destruction, I will not repeat these striking similarities here. What I would like to do, however, is point us away from some very real threats to our country from without, namely; nuts with nukes (Kim Jong-Il of North Korea & Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran), to a far more imminent threat from within.

According to the Census Bureau’s recently released American Community Survey, households made up of married couples are no longer a majority, but a minority in American.  Along with being unimaginable to our forefathers and unprecedented in our history, this development is most foreboding for our future. As the God ordained bedrock of all orderly human society and the only proper relationship for the purposes of reproduction and childrearing, traditional marriage cannot be discarded without imperiling our posterity.

History clearly testifies to the fact that no society long endures once marriage is diminished in its eyes. Ours will prove to be no exception to the rule. Like all before us who’ve turned up their nose at God’s design, we too will slowly bleed to death from the self-inflicted wounds of obstinate decadence. Of course, this is contingent upon our country’s demise not being accelerated by some Muslim terrorist brandishing a nuclear devise.

When you couple the above with America’s waning opposition to homosexuality—opposition to same-sex marriage is now down to a bare majority (51%) of Americans—it’s easy to see the handwriting on the wall. According to Romans 1:24-32, a sure sign of God’s giving up on a society is that society giving itself over to “vile affections” like homosexuality. Is it too late for America? Are we weighed in the balances and found wanting? How much longer can our country, a country that increasingly spurns traditional marriage and smiles upon same-sex marriage, endure?