You are naïve if you think that the planned and coordinated agenda that spurred gay marriage in most places in America ends with this challenge to God’s family structure.   How long do you think it will be before a few activist bloodsucking lawyers shove a gay couple into the offices of a fundamental church in Florida seeking to be married, and what do you think the ramifications of a refusal to perform the ceremony might be ?   After all, churches enjoy a tax-advantaged, protected position with our government that exists as long as the church follows our laws.   And what if that law violates the biblical beliefs of that church body ?   I would like to think that the leaders of my church would risk arrest and sanction rather than conducting such a ceremony.

Romans 13:1 says: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God”.   Maybe I should tone down my rhetoric about the Emperor !  But Acts 5:29 suggests, in response to a set of  Old Testament leaders pushing the apostles to act in contradiction to God’s will, “We must obey God rather than men”.     The message seems pretty clear – support and respect and pray for God’s appointed leaders, even if they are from a competing political group, up to the point where they force violation of the more compelling set of God’s laws.      Pretty easy, eh ?                WHAT THE HECK !