The United States Supreme Court today ruled, Homosexual couples may now marry anywhere in the United States, In a 5 – 4 ruling the Court decided that Marriage in the United States is no longer an Institution between one man and one woman.
In other words Gay marriage is now the law of the land.
This ruling is a huge win for proponents of the issue they defined as marriage equality.The Gay , Lesbian and trans-gender community have successfully argued that marriage equality is human rights.
♦The question then becomes “where will this end will a man or woman be able to legally marry their dog, cat , cow or horse?
♦ Will it now be against Federal law to refuse to offer service to homosexuals if that service is antithetical to their faith?
♦ Will members of the Clergy now be forced to perform marriage ceremonies for Gay couples in contravention of their faith?
♦ Will ministers who refuse to do so be prosecuted as breaking the law?
♦ Will congregations which refuse to marry homosexuals now lose their tax exempt status?
I believe we all know what the answer to these questions will be . This is an issue which has swept the United States and the World like a massive brush fire on a parched prairie. Opposition to marriage equality has crumbled and folded like a wet blanket.
This ruling will have sweeping and far reaching consequences for people under the influence of the United States of America, not just in the United States but across the Globe.
In writing for the majority Justice Kennedy a Herbert Walker Bush appointee, wrote that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in the 5 to 4 decision. He was joined by the court’s four more liberal justices, Ruth Bader Gingsberg,Stephen Breyer , Helena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor.
This is the real beginning of the persecution of the Christian Church…
Smaller Nations steeped in Religious principles and opposed to homosexuality will literally be choked to death. Loans , grants and aid will be tied to compliance. Jamaica is one such nation which has been under tremendous pressure to repeal it’s bugger law. In the 4 years since Prime Minister Bruce Golding stepped down for daring to suggest he would not have Gays in his Cabinet, in response to a British Journalist’s question, attitudes have also changed on the issue.
As part of that sea-change I spoke about earlier, Jamaicans too, once vehemently opposed to Homosexuality, have now softened their attitudes significantly on the issue.
In the African American community, once stridently opposed to Homosexuality the walls of opposition have crumbled like a dried-mud-hut in a 7.0 earthquake.
So what has brought about this Biblical-like capitulation to Homosexuality?
Here in the United States African Americans and other ethnic minorities have struggled for hundreds of years for human rights, civil rights, and dignity. Yet the struggle rages sometimes without any visible traction.
Juxtapose our racial struggle with the Homosexual struggle and we must ask ourselves how come the struggle which has been waged for centuries is yet to gather the appropriate traction once and for all, yet the struggle which hitched itself to the wagon is close to being won?