A sorry moral climate has descended upon the United States and the push for a marriage amendment to be added to the United States Constitution proves the decline of the nation’s morals. Keep in mind that the Constitution is to limit government and to ensure that government protects God given freedom and liberties of all. It isn’t a document whose purpose is to control moral behavior though there are responsibilities of government outlined to deal with misbehavior of those elected to public office and to deal with citizens who are accused of violating criminal laws.

The United States was founded by a very religious and moral people who didn’t need to have the government guide them in the ways of morality. Their personal adherence to God and his ways controlled their daily lives and thus a quote by John Quincy Adams is in order: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."  Events of the past few years are proving the quote to be true as homosexuals and their various lobby groups seek to subvert the under pining of the nation which is the morals of God. As the issue is studied, it is more and more apparent that the freedom and liberty we have enjoyed in a moral climate are being eroded by those who refuse to honor God and his ways.

As a result of the assault on the moral climate, an amendment to the United States Constitution is being pushed that will define marriage as only between a man and a woman. The proponents of the amendment say that it will stop the assault on marriage. To the contrary, marriage isn’t under assault by the homosexual crowd; it is the moral health of the nation that is under assault. A nation that steps over the cliff into immorality can’t long survive, and apparently there isn’t anyone in leadership positions who will step forward and call the homosexual movement sinful and declare that we as a nation of people founded on God’s principles must return to the giver of our freedom and liberty.

As the years have gone by, the people have more and more looked to government to solve their personal problems instead of looking to God, and then inwardly to see how they are keeping his ways daily. Now, because no one will stand up and defend the morality of marriage and say that homosexual marriage is sinful (if marriage is the right term for a relationship God condemns); and because no one has enough fortitude and conviction to stick to moral principles, the government through an amendment, is going to be in the business of defining what is and isn’t moral or allowable morally. 

When government enters the arena of personal morality (criminal conduct excluded) and delves into what should be the moral guidance called for by God, and which is the responsibility of an individual, government has overstepped its bounds. The government should have moral people at the helm but that seems to be asking too much of those who are supposed to be our leaders.  And where are the voices of the churches in opposition to the homosexual movement? Sadly, many churches are lead by and filled with those sympathetic to the homosexuals to the same degree that government is catering to them.

A marriage amendment is wrong, not because it denies the homosexuals so called rights, but because it puts government into the business of determining and overseeing morals. In Sorting It Out, the solution isn’t an amendment but a return to God’s principles by those who can and will tell the homosexual crowd in a word, “No.”

© 05-18-2006 DEC