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Article III, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States, names the Supreme Court as the ultimate judicial power of the United States of America. Some of its rulings have crucially affected the moral foundation and direction of our nation.
On January 22, 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Court ruled that women had the constitutional right to choose to abort their unborn babies. Since that ruling, over 57,000,000 [60,000,000, updated to 2018] innocent infants have been legallymurdered in the U.S. alone. All who believe the Bible concerning the sanctity of life remain horrified at this ruling and its tragic consequences.
On June 26, 2003, the Court ruled that all laws prohibiting sodomy (homosexual activity) were unconstitutional (Lawrence v. Texas). This ruling reflected—and accelerated—the moral degeneration of America and greatly advanced the cause of sodomite activists. All who believe the Bible concerning the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman and the Biblical evaluation of homosexual behavior as “abomination,” “defilement,” “against nature,” “unseemliness,” “error,” “not fitting,” and pursuing “strange flesh” (Lev. 18:22–24; Rom. 1:26–28; 1 Cor. 6:9–10; 1 Tim. 1:10; Jude 7) were appalled at the implications of this ruling. It has given credence, legality, and encouragement to deviant, wicked behavior.
Human courts are conducted by fallible men who make mistakes. Injustices occur; sometimes the guilty go unpunished and the innocent are convicted and suffer wrongly. There is a court, however, in which all wrong judgments and inequities will be corrected. Christians know now that which all will eventually learn: The judgments of human courts are not final. Please consider:
- “Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, And upright are thy judgments” (Psa. 119:137).
- God “hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead” (Acts 17:31).
- “But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats” (Mat. 25:31–32).
- “For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Cor. 5:10).
The U.S. “Supreme Court” is not the Supreme Court, after all.
[Note:I wrote this article for and it appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, TX, November 7, 2014.]
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