The recent
religious liberty legislation in Indiana has produced an outcry of discrimination against sexual orientation. Yet since the sexual
revolution of the sixties we have seen a downward slide in traditional values
in our country. What was once abnormal is now described as normal and
moral values have changed as man’s capabilities and technology have changed.
But why is the sexual orientation argument being described as discrimination and not as a moral issue? If it is unjust to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, isn’t that a moral judgment of something right and wrong? From what value system is sexual orientation determined to be true or false, or true today but not true a few decades ago? The debate about this discrimination is really about a new morality.
Those who promote religious liberty also see sexual orientation as a moral issue, and that it is our religious right to be moral. Religious liberty is a hallmark of our country based upon truths that are, "self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” as we know from the Declaration of Independence. The right to the freedom of religion is an unalienable right, yet the civil rights of sexual orientation have developed just recently in our culture.
Religious freedom lies at the core of what America stands for as all other liberties come from this unalienable right. This liberty is based upon “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” that also is in our Declaration, which means that our laws should not be founded upon the preferences or tyrannies of men. All true liberty is based upon truths that are from the laws of nature and nature's God. In our contemporary culture there are many laws however that have departed from these laws and have established a precedent of preference instead of rights endowed by our Creator.
We’ve come a long way since the eighteenth century and there is an equivocation being made today from our technical progress to a moral progressiveness. But the self evident truth and the laws of nature do not change by the opinions or progress of people. Our religious freedom is directly tied to unchanging truths and when these principles are rejected then all our freedoms will be lost. There is no real progress without the foundational laws of nature and nature's God which do not change.
Remarkably there is even a growing demand for the acceptance of sexual orientation despite self evident truth and the laws of nature. Have we lost all common sense as a culture? For even the human anatomy reveals that male and female are created by design for each other. And if heterosexuality is not moral then what is morality? The sexual orientation argument fails in its fundamental reasoning as it has no foundation in natural law. Even more, the sexually progressive cannot defend their practices from any lasting truth principles as they seek to normalize a new morality.
Departing from the primary truths that our nation was founded upon severs us from all our American justice and even the very foundation of civilized society. We must distinguish the difference then between being equal in essence and in practice, and between morality and discrimination. We need to clarify the essence of all our liberty by upholding the laws of nature and nature's God and the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. Otherwise we will have no self evident truth or natural law for which a defense can be made from the preferences and tyranny of men.
As we remember Easter Sunday this week let's remember that Christians also have truth from the Scriptures that we trust and depend upon. This is the truth of the grace of Christ that can change our hearts and forgive our sin as we put our trust in him. It's also a truth that does not change with the shifting winds of the doctrines in culture. Let's proclaim this grace in Christ so as to respect the humanity of all people and the need we all have for grace.
But why is the sexual orientation argument being described as discrimination and not as a moral issue? If it is unjust to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, isn’t that a moral judgment of something right and wrong? From what value system is sexual orientation determined to be true or false, or true today but not true a few decades ago? The debate about this discrimination is really about a new morality.
Those who promote religious liberty also see sexual orientation as a moral issue, and that it is our religious right to be moral. Religious liberty is a hallmark of our country based upon truths that are, "self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” as we know from the Declaration of Independence. The right to the freedom of religion is an unalienable right, yet the civil rights of sexual orientation have developed just recently in our culture.
Religious freedom lies at the core of what America stands for as all other liberties come from this unalienable right. This liberty is based upon “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” that also is in our Declaration, which means that our laws should not be founded upon the preferences or tyrannies of men. All true liberty is based upon truths that are from the laws of nature and nature's God. In our contemporary culture there are many laws however that have departed from these laws and have established a precedent of preference instead of rights endowed by our Creator.
We’ve come a long way since the eighteenth century and there is an equivocation being made today from our technical progress to a moral progressiveness. But the self evident truth and the laws of nature do not change by the opinions or progress of people. Our religious freedom is directly tied to unchanging truths and when these principles are rejected then all our freedoms will be lost. There is no real progress without the foundational laws of nature and nature's God which do not change.
Remarkably there is even a growing demand for the acceptance of sexual orientation despite self evident truth and the laws of nature. Have we lost all common sense as a culture? For even the human anatomy reveals that male and female are created by design for each other. And if heterosexuality is not moral then what is morality? The sexual orientation argument fails in its fundamental reasoning as it has no foundation in natural law. Even more, the sexually progressive cannot defend their practices from any lasting truth principles as they seek to normalize a new morality.
Departing from the primary truths that our nation was founded upon severs us from all our American justice and even the very foundation of civilized society. We must distinguish the difference then between being equal in essence and in practice, and between morality and discrimination. We need to clarify the essence of all our liberty by upholding the laws of nature and nature's God and the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. Otherwise we will have no self evident truth or natural law for which a defense can be made from the preferences and tyranny of men.
As we remember Easter Sunday this week let's remember that Christians also have truth from the Scriptures that we trust and depend upon. This is the truth of the grace of Christ that can change our hearts and forgive our sin as we put our trust in him. It's also a truth that does not change with the shifting winds of the doctrines in culture. Let's proclaim this grace in Christ so as to respect the humanity of all people and the need we all have for grace.
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