This article is a dirge for the
soul of the United States of America. It died on June 26, 2015 when the US
Supreme Court, covertly and overtly, prompted by President Barack Obama,
legalised same-sex marriage. The judges’ slim 5-4 verdict severed the country
from the hallowed grounds of the conjugal institution established by God, Creator
of Heaven and Earth along with all their inhabitants....
His inviolable decree on marriage
says it must be between two consenting opposite sexes, not among like gender.
His law has worked for His plan for the perpetuation of the human race. In
other words, the marital relationship involving the male and his opposite
number gives life, supports life, sustains life and satisfies life. Its breach
on the other hand, brings death, breeds destruction and begets disaster and
sexual bedlam. How would same-sex reproduce life, if its promoters, votaries
and practitioners were to have their way? It is death for those taking that
road.
Their way threatens mankind with
extinction since the reach isn’t for procreation but for bestial and
unproductive pleasure. Obama and the US are proving to be successors of the
Pied Piper of Hamelin, luring millions to their graves with effete gay music.
The American leader joined several others in rhapsodic celebration to hail the
Court’s ruling. He topped it by interrupting a live TV programme as he phoned a
gay fellow who was on set, felicitating with him on the occasion of the
judicial decision.
Coupled with how he has always
heckled African nations to embrace the ideology of the LGBT throng or be
deprived the US aid, this macabre dance of Obama has made some discerning
observers to wonder if the American leader and his ilk are not closet gay
persons.
Tragically, the US government
seems to be taking most of the citizens along this broad path of perdition. The
American media reported that some 60 per cent of the public newspapers
interviewed moments after the ruling applauded the verdict. And then days
after, Obama’s approval rating hit a two-year high. According to a joint poll
involving the Cable News Network, “50 per cent of Americans approve of the way
Obama is handling his presidency-which is up five points over the most recent
survey and his highest approval rating since May 2013.” One of the issues the
respondents took note of was the Supreme Court judgment that “affirmed” that
Obama had been right all along in his fight for gay marriage recognition. The
worry now is that emboldened by this victory, Washington and its allies are not
going to limit their revolt against God and His marriage covenant to the shores
of the US. They are poised for the mother and father of all wars to coerce the
rest of the sane world to follow them the same way the evil Pied Piper did it
centuries ago to destroy scores of innocent children in 13th century Germany.
The stick and carrot strategy used in such struggles abound in the armoury of
the Americans.
A commentator has added a
sardonic concern: Homosexuality in the US decades ago was illegal. Now, it is
legal. What stops the US authorities from making it compulsory? Given the
finality that underscored the pronouncement of Justice Anthony Kennedy who
wrote the ruling, that apprehension isn’t outlandish or misplaced. The decision
outlaws same-sex restrictions all over the US, including the 13 states opposed
to gay marriage. In effect, the Supreme Court is urging a negation of
conventional marriage to make way for a gay community.
Alaska Supreme Court judge Roy
Moore says the “decision is against the laws of nature.” He adds: “Welcome to
the new world. It’s just changed for you Christians… you are going to be
persecuted.” Texas Attorney-General Ken Paxton says what the justices handed
down is “lawless ruling.” It has triggered a faith crisis in some citizens. A
Christian woman in a Texas government office was thrown into a quandary on the
day of the ruling. She first refused to issue licences when some gay chaps came
to her. But her heroism wilted later. She said:”Personally, same-sex marriage
is in contradiction to my faith and belief that marriage is between one man and
one woman. However, first and foremost, I took an oath on my family’s Bible to
uphold the law and as an elected public official; my personal belief cannot
prevent me from issuing the licences as required. Moreover, my faith in Christ
ensures I have compassion and respect for those who feel differently.” I have
been upset by the repeated use of the word marriage by the American judges and
the circle of gay adherents. It is not their coinage; nor is it their
invention. It was instituted by God the Creator. I don’t accept that you can
appropriate what isn’t yours and maul it as the gay people and their sponsors
are doing. Let them not refer to a so-termed union between male and male and
female and female as marriage. Matrimony as decreed from creation is an
exclusively holy idea from a Holy God which some puny, happy-go-lucky,
hedonistic bunch of people can’t arrogantly claim for perverse use. You can’t
subtract from it. You can’t rearrange it to feed your rapacious lust.
It is tragic that the US that has
the iconic Statue of Liberty in New York beckoning humanity’s wretched to come
for warmth, comfort and hope is at once the same society waving warrants of
death that come in the form of morally hollow licences leading man back in time
to the loose age of Sodom and Gomorrah.
When the mighty US dollar
proclaims In God We Trust as its message to the world, does it sync with the
notion of faith in the One Whose institution you are thrashing, Whose pact with
man on the matter of procreation you are rejecting, Whose idea of sex as a
noble and regenerative activity you are rebelling against? Would that God so
contemned, so condemned, so cancelled out of your life accept that He is the
One being trusted? What do you trust Him for? You would trust Him to supply you
with enormous resources that have transformed you into the sole superpower of
the age… But alas you spend the mammoth strength, energy and prosperity to
satisfy destructive lust!
It isn’t farfetched then to give
this ruling: The United States of America trusts in lust!
Ojewale, a writer and
journalist, wrote in from Ota, Ogun State
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