Current Issues: Gay Unions: A Response

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/jesusmalemp3/"><strong>website</strong></a>.</p><p><i>What is your take on the recent Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriages? And advice?</i></p><p>Following the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize "gay marriages," here are a few bullet points that may prove helpful in guiding our thoughts.</p><ul><li>On this topic, <strong>God's word isn't difficult to understand</strong>, and can be ascertained quickly using any Bible concordance. Both testaments teach the same, and studies may be found elsewhere at this website. Taking our stand on the Word is not always fashionable. And yet modern liberal interpreters would have us believe that the unanimous understanding of the church has been flawed for 2000 years -- as was that of Judaism before (from the 13th century onwards). This means one of two things: that the apostles seriously misunderstood sexual ethics, or else that God intended his revelation to apply only to earlier centuries, and to be updated as society became more sophisticated. Neither one of these possibilities seems convincing. <i>Note: modern Judaism no longer holds to a biblical view of heterosexuality.</i></li><li><strong>God will judge those outside the church</strong>, as Paul reminds us in 1 Cor 5. This is not our task. Moreover, we can still accept the person even if we don't accept the teaching. This is the meaning of tolerance. (Please refer to the two newsletter articles on tolerance: <a href="http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4a5682d4bc6d3a2ee49519a21&id=39b6e19613"><strong>part 1</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4a5682d4bc6d3a2ee49519a21&id=d65071032e"><strong>part 2</strong></a><strong>.</strong>)</li><li><strong>This is nothing new! </strong>Building on the foundation of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, the Gay Rights Movement, well organized and widely supported in the courts, media, the arts, and higher educational institutions,