I had a great opportunity yesterday to speak to about 120 students
at my daughter's school. They are studying Africa and I was asked
to talk about my trip to Egypt.

I was not sure how the sixth graders would react, but they were
wonderful. They paid attention, asked and answered questions. We
even had a voluntary quiz and nearly every student wanted to do it,
but only 10 could participate.

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California's Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriages

Yes, another state has moved to legalize and legitimize homosexual
"marriages." There are number of problems with this, including
overruling the will of the people. In a democratic republic such as
ours, the will of the people is suppose to be the will of the
state, for the state derives its power from the people, not the
people from the state. Anyway, I could go on with a political
discussion, but that is not the point of this newsletter or
www.PlainFaith.com. Spiritual matters are the focus.

There is an agenda among some segments of our society to tear down
everything to do with God and the moral standards He commands in
His Word. It is led by the church of Humanism, the American Civil
Liberties Union and is supported by many other organizations with
an anti-God bent. Every form and facet of perversion and wickedness
is not only to be tolerated, but promoted and protected by law.
Those who have even a little adherence to biblical standards must
see these entities and this movement as inherently dangerous to
souls and the nation. As such, we must oppose it when and where
possible.

The Bible teaches homosexuality is a sin, and not just in the Old
Testament (Lev. 20:13). The New Testament is emphatic about the
sinfulness of sodomy.

"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their
women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
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, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their
error which was due" (Rom. 1:26, 27).

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom
of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will
inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor. 6:9, 10).

From the beginning, God's will has been one man for one woman for
life. He made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Andy (Gen. 2:18-25). He
did not make Eve and Elaine either. Homosexual activity is
fundamentally against nature; contrary to God's creation.

The argument that some animals practice homosexuality, being a part
of God's creation, will not work. Some animals eat their young too.
My dog eats her vomit. Other dogs sniff her crotch when they first
approach her. Are we to use animals as a standard in all behaviors?

Truth be told, this is what some really want; animals as our
standard. This is a product of evolutionary indoctrination. It is
what helps promote and keep alive the abortion (read murder)
culture. It is what's behind the push to legalize euthanasia (read
murder).

Now, to the "marriage" part: calling the ceremony or actions of two
homosexuals making a commitment to each other, even exchanging
rings, does not make it a marriage. Why? Because as stated above,
God established marriage, He created it, and therefore regulates
it. No man, state, government, court, religious organization, or
any other human being or entity can change this. It may be called a
marriage, but the Bible calls is "vile," "shameful," and "against
nature," in other words, sin.

The same is true of polygamous "marriages" today. At one time God
approved of polygamy. Abraham and Jacob had more than one wife.
David was given many wives by God (2 Sam. 12:8; cf. 2 Sam. 3:2-5;
5:13). Under the New Testament of Jesus Christ, though, God
commands one man for one woman. "…let each man have his own wife,
and let each wife have her own husband" (1 Cor. 7:2). The second,
third, and fourth "marriages" of fundamentalists Mormons and
Muslims are not really marriages. They are adultery.

Polygamous or homosexual "marriages" are only marriages by law, not
by divine will.

When blatant immorality is protected and promoted by the
government, the state and/or nation is in trouble, serious trouble.
"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any
people" (Prov. 14:34). Every nation that has traveled the path of
immorality has come crashing down. We are now on that path and doom
cannot be too far off (though I am not a prophet or the son of a
prophet). That is just the way the world works.

Hence, those of us who hold to biblical morals need to push back.
We need to let our officials know our displeasure in their actions,
whether the way they vote or the judges they appoint. If enough
people will rise up and resist the tidal wave of sin, it can be
held back. Will you be one who takes a stand or goes silently along?

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