Standing Against Defeat
Events and trends over the past several decades have been extremely disheartening to patriotic, God-loving Americans. One must cite among these events and trends the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade abolishing all state restrictions on abortion; the federal government’s ongoing usurpation of rights belonging to the states; the ever-increasing socialization of our society through the government’s unconstitutional intrusion into fields such as welfare, healthcare, and education; the substitution by court decree or legislative action of radical egalitarianism in place of individual liberty; the use of public education to poison and corrupt the minds of the young; the involvement of America in an endless series of foreign wars; the sabotage of our country’s control over our own borders; and so forth. One can cite also the dismal performance, by and large, of so-called conservative politicians in their failure to turn back, or even to try to turn back, the Left-liberal onslaught.
However, one of the most severe blows to the equanimity of tradition-minded Americans has been the Supreme Court’s decision on June 26 of this year in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges in which the court claimed to have discovered a fundamental constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, thereby overturning state laws disallowing such “marriages” and apparently overturning the very definition of marriage.
Not only did that decision deeply shock many Americans, since it is a direct attack on traditional morality, but the threat that this decision portends to freedom of religion and even to freedom of speech horrifies them. For good reason are people discouraged over this latest lost battle in what has been called the Culture War, the fierce struggle in which the traditional biblical view of society is pitted against revolutionary Left-liberal subversion. Is this latest reverse so grave that we should give up the struggle and, in essence, surrender? Have America and the West become so dissolute that there is no hope? Are we now beyond the point of no return?
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