SAN FRANCISCO – In what was a day of shame for pro-family groups everywhere, the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Thursday morning to join Massachusetts as the second state to recognize same-sex “marriage.”
In the court’s opinion, Chief Justice Ron George ruled that the ban on same-sex “marriage” was “discriminatory” and that “domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage.” The court's decision overturns state laws prohibiting same-sex nuptials.
Dozens of gay couples who gathered outside the Sacramento courthouse met the ruling with cheers and jubilation as pro-family advocates protested nearby.
"We'll have each other forever, but we deserve the same rights as everybody else," David Bowers told the Sacramento Bee, as he stood by his gay partner. "How can it hurt anyone else?” he asked.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who performed thousands of same-sex "marriages" in 2004 in defiance of state law, praised the ruling. "We had our day in court and we won. Real people won," Newsom said, according to San Jose Mercury News. "People feel their lives are affirmed."
But Matt Barber of the pro-family Concerned Women for America believes the ruling by the California Supreme Court was the “worst kind of judicial activism today” and represented a rejection of the court’s supposed role “as an objective interpreter of the law.”
"So-called 'same-sex' marriage is counterfeit marriage. Marriage is, and has always been, between a man and a woman,” he said in a statement shortly after the court’s decision.
Although pro-family groups were undoubtedly disheartened by the court’s decision, they were adamant that citizens would vote positively on a constitutional amendment to ban gay “marriage” during this year’s election in November.
Over 1 million signatures have been collected to place the measure on the ballot for the public to vote on. The initiative is still being processed by the State Registrar.
If a majority of state residents vote positively on the ban, the amendment will overturn and nullify the decision by the California Supreme Court.
"The majority of Americans recognize the fact that legitimate marriage and family are cornerstones of a healthy society,” CWA’s Barber noted.
Ron Prentice, executive director of the Sacramento and Riverside-based California Family Council, stressed the importance of the November vote after Thursday’s high court decision.
"We have not been able to count on the legislature or the courts of California to adhere to the will of the people," Prentice told the Los Angeles Times. "This is yet another example why the people need to go to the polls in November to defend the historic and natural definition of marriage."
Matt Daniels, president and founder of the Alliance for Marriage Foundation, called California “ground zero” in the battle to protect traditional marriage. “[T]he fight in California must now be joined in the Congress,” he said.
Since 2004, when the Massachusetts State Supreme Court made its ruling to recognize gay “marriage,” 26 states have passed a constitutional ban on the practice, while over a dozen others have passed laws limiting or outlawing it.
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by your statements. If you repent (turn away) from the error of this thinking, then Jesus Christ can set you free if you would just yield to His leading and His Word. I will be praying for you.
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When I hear you make assumptions about "well what about divorce", and then whe one tells you that God hates divorce, but unfortunately sinful men make choices against God's Will and choose their own path, you will dismiss it, and say that we are contradictory, or when you say things like "well what about pedophilia not being mentioned in the Bible",when concerned brothers in Christ pull up Leviticus 8 to prove that the latter is in the Bible, you dismiss it by saying it is ceremonial Jewish Law, and not moral law. I tell you ifeelfine, you can, and most probably wil continue on your deceived mindset thinking it's ok to be actively homosexual(not repentant) and be Christian, but I tell you that even though you may adhere to that fallacy not knowing the Scriptures, it still doesn't change God's absolute authority in the Word. He loves the sinner, but hates(detests) sin. He beckons all of us siners to come to Him thru Jesus Christ, but we must chose this day whom we will serve. If Christ is trully Lord of our lives, then we will want to obey His Word. If we believe that Christ is God in the Flesh who rose again on the Third Day to conquer sin and death, then we must show our love for Him by Obeying the Father. Jesus said "not my will, but you're be done". In other word's we must be willing to die to our opinions, pre-suppositions, and unltimately our wills and put on Christ. We do not obtain Salvation thru good works; however, after having acepted the grace of God and seeing what it costs Him thru Jesus Christ, then we will choose to change course(repent). Please ifeelfine, i have been pleading with you to repent of your error for quite a while now. It is ultimately up to you. If you were like the Bereans (for that matter, if we were all like the Bereans) and search the Scriptures daily, then we would have a fuller, deeper knowledge of God's expressed Will according to His Word. Repent Ifeelfine, repent or else you WILL have a rude awakening before your Creator; obviously your mind is twisted with regard to what is and what is not sin, and a lot of it has to do with the cultural relativity you so proclaim
ifeelfine wrote:
"Wilderness: What does that say about lesbians? They must be the chosen ones then."
Ifeelfine, how far you have strayed from the whole counsel of God that you would think like a heathen in regards to what God has set forth as HIS plan for mankind when it comes to marriage. First you try to make a suggestion that David and Jonathan were gay, and you try to twist the Scriptures to make your point, and now you try to distort what wilderness is saying. Man, get right with God! There are obviously things in Scripture which are black and white; no shady tones of grey are allowed, and this is one of them. I know you are not too fond of the Apostle Paul and his teachings on the subject because it goes totally against your views on the subject, but remember this is the man that was appeared to by Christ Himself on the road to Damascus and gave his life for the Gospel's sake. Please ifeelfine, stop trying to reason with today's culture and just give heed to what the Holy Spirit of God says in His Word (both Old and New Testament). It grieves me when you proclaim to be born again. You quote Scriptures that show the Grace of God, but I never see you balance them with the other Scriptures that warn Christians to turn their backs on sin. I think the real issue at hand is whether you believe the Word of God to be the Inherrent Inspired Word of God holy, flawless and without error, and whether you adhere to what God's expressed Will for mankind is, and it's ultimate authority upon the believer in Christ.
“Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man” (1 Corinthians 11:8, 9).
A relationship of man to man is each rejecting the woman that God has created for them.
A relationship of woman to woman is each rejecting the man whom God created them for. Homosexual relationships are in direct rebellion against God our creator. Take heed:
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” (1Sa 15:23).
Wilderness: What does that say about lesbians? They must be the chosen ones then.
Pr 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
If you are a man finding a man, then you are not finding a good thing. Why perish? “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 3:2).
Jesusis1: It almost seems as though you revel in that belief that God might smite the West Coast. Proud are we?
Jesus4me, Quecat and others who stand up for what the Gospel says may God richly bless you all. It is refreshing to see others standup to the unbelievers and the apostate so called christian that post here. I encourge you all to keep going in Jesus name. Jesus said there would be those who have forsaken the ways of God and fallen for the lies of the world. By reading some of the post here I see He was right. As Christians we need to stand up for what is right in the eyes of Almightly God and sin---no matterif its homosexaulity,adultry,living togeather,gossip,drunkeness,lieing or teaching others thru their words the ways contary of God need to be preach against and resisted by those who follow this Jesus of the Bible. Again thank you and God Bless ya's In Christ Tom
Curious - if Dongard doesn't believe in God anyway - why would he refer to an earthquake as being mass murder? You sound conflicted.
dongard,
"you don't like the result of a policy decision, so now you are advocating mass murder and destruction. how christian of you."
Since God is the Author of Life, God cannot murder. Therefore, if God chooses to take away or allows the taking away of life through natural disaster, He is not committing murder.
Jesusis1
you don't like the result of a policy decision, so now you are advocating mass murder and destruction. how christian of you.
"Anyone see a major earthquake hitting the west coast?"
Let me guess.... almighty god is punishing the California Supreme Court for legalizing same-sex marriage. LOL
1 Cornthians 6:9-20
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Glorify God in Body and Spirit
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”[b] 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[c] and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Footnotes:
1 Corinthians 6:9 That is, catamites
1 Corinthians 6:16 Genesis 2:24
1 Corinthians 6:20 NU-Text ends the verse at bod
Quecat, I'm very familiar with Calvary Chapel Ft.Lauderdale. Both I and my wife used to sit under Bob Coy's teachings when we lived in Florida. A few years back, the Lord took us out of Florida, and now we sit under the teaching of another Calvary Chapel Pastor in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex area. We get to listen to Calvary Satellite Radio here, so it's really cool to be able to hear Pastor Chuck Smith in the mornings teaching his verse by verse teacings on the radio on my way to work in the mornings, and then i get to hear Greg Laurie with "A New Beginning", and then then comes David Rosales which I really enjoy as well......there is so much meat in the Word that needs to be taught in today's churches, but everyone just wants the fluffy "feel-good" motivational TBN style Christianity, or the Liberal post modernism that has hyjacked most of America's churches. Good talking to you. Hey, I have a question: Has anyone heard anymore from Prophet? I haven't been on the site for a while and was just wondering. Anyways, good night.