When any group of people, be they ordinary citizens or public servants of any position, lose the understanding that sin is in the world and its evilness is counter to God, then all sorts of conduct becomes permissible in the eyes of the government. Such occurred in Indiana on Friday, August 4, 2006, when the Indiana Supreme Court let stand a ruling that homosexuals may adopt children. (See link below for the article.)

A spokeswoman said, "The court acknowledged that two people can create a caring, stable, loving home for children without being married," She went on to say: "Not only is this a decision that will keep our clients' family intact, but this is a victory for the thousands of children in Indiana desperately in need of a caring home." Obviously, the court and the woman care nothing for God’s way found in the Bible.

The writer of Proverbs declared in Chapter 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. What is righteous about allowing homosexuals or other unmarried people to adopt children? Where are such teachings found in the Holy Scriptures? When God’s way is ignored, then all types of sin becomes the norm. It has become much like the days when there wasn’t any king in Israel as recorded in two places in the book of Judges, 17:6 and 21:15:  In those days, there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Can it be anymore obvious that the leaders of this nation have lost sight of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords when the rulings of the Indiana courts are understood in their full sinfulness?

In Proverbs 22:6 we find the following: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.  Whatever is taught, a child will be what he or she will follow when they become older. If the child is taught righteousness, they will follow righteousness; if they are taught sin, they will follow sin. It is argued that many don’t behave properly though they have been taught the proper way of God. That is true too, but they always will remember the right path. The way of God can’t be cast aside and forgotten no matter how hard they may try.

Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:1-4, [1] Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. [2] Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) [3] That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. [4 ]And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The verses are in the context of family beginning in Ephesians 5:22 where Paul’s message was given to both husbands and wives. By no stretch of the imagination does the teaching include any thought that homosexuals were included or are spoken of in the context of the husband ( father) and the wife (mother). Only a mind turned from God’s truth, and one that is substituting human wisdom for God’s, could believe that children can be raised as normal in a homosexual household and know the moral content of God’s way.

In 2 Thessalonians Paul wrote: [2 Th 2:10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [2 Th 2:11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [2 Th 2:12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. When any human looses sight of God’s reasons (salvation and a holy life) for sending Christ, they deny sin and the delusions set in and become the guiding force for their lives. And as Paul said, they have pleasure in the unrighteousness of sin.

Whether some of you who read this like it or not, the ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court has denied God’s righteousness and is promoting the practice of sin and the most impressionable and vulnerable are the victims of it.

© 10-15-2006 DEC

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 (Source for news quotes http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/4/232320.shtml?s=ic)