Although I have not seen the ad and was unsuccessful in my attempts to view it online, it is reported that prominent Christian and Jewish leaders have taken out a full-page ad in major newspapers warning the Supreme Court that they will not honor any decision by the court that violates the "biblical understanding of marriage." Further warning the "Supremes" that they "represent millions of people in…churches, parishes, denominations, synagogues and media ministry outreaches," these religious leaders state in the ad and in no uncertain terms that any decision by the court to redefine marriage will be a battle line drawn on which millions of Americans will wage a war of civil disobedience against the court. It will be a line that these Christian leaders say they "cannot and will not cross," vowing "obedience to [their] Creator" rather than to the court!
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained back in 2005 that the only reason his ungodly colleagues on the court cherry picked cases on publicly displayed Ten Commandments monuments, showed such inconsistency in deciding them, and refused to outright banish by law all semblance of our country's Christian heritage from the public square was the court's "instinct for self-preservation." According to Scalia, the Supreme Court, which "has no influence over either the sword [executive branch of our government] or the purse [legislative branch of our government], cannot go too far" in contradicting "both historical fact and current practice without losing all that sustains it: the willingness of the people to accept its interpretation of the Constitution as definitive." It sounds like Christian leaders are finally standing up to let the Supreme Court know that it's about to go too far and lose all that sustains it, namely, the willingness of millions of Americans to respect or accept its interpretation of the Constitution as definitive.
For the first time in a long time I see a little glimmer of hope in America. Will godly Americans actually standup in defiance to an ungodly decision by an ungodly Supreme Court? And if so, are there enough godly Americans left in this country to really cause such a stir as to shake the foundations of our Supreme Court, which continuously attempts to usurp our will by making itself into a despotic oligarchy? Notice, I'm only seeing a glimmer of hope. There are several reasons for this; permit me to enumerate them.
1. Although it is yet to be announced, the Supreme Court's decision on the legalization of same-sex marriage has in all likelihood already been made. Long before this ad appeared in major newspapers, the Supremes' gavels had already come down. We're just waiting to hear the thud.
2. Some of the Supremes appear unconcerned with whether or not their rulings undermine public confidence in the court. For instance, both Justice Kagan and Justice Ginsburg have refused to recuse themselves from ruling on the legalization of same-sex marriage in spite of the fact that they have both publicly advocated for it.
3. If our president, who has continuously thumbed his nose at the voices of the American people in his seizing of illegal powers and handing down of executive fiats, without, I might add, suffering any consequences or being held accountable for his despotic actions, is any gauge to go by, then, why should Supreme Court justices hesitant to use their gavels as scepters and demand that the America people subject themselves to their judicial diktats?
4. Finally, will milquetoast members and ministers of America's contemporary church finally get a backbone and be willing to stand up for the truth despite cost and consequence to themselves? While I sincerely hope so, I must honestly admit that most of the severe criticism and opposition I've faced in recent days over my stand for the truth has come from within the church, not from without. It's my brothers and sisters in Christ who continuously excoriate me. Therefore, to see them suddenly joining ranks with me at the risk of sharing the persecution of today's politically correct world is hard to envision. Yet, I'm still squinting my eyes to see a little glimmer of hope.