A Public Declaration from the Churches of God To the Community On Sodomy and the Desecration of Holy Matrimony<\/p>\n
Recommended by Michael Bray, \u00a023 October, 2015<\/p>\n
We were taught as children and then did teach our own children not to follow the crowd and do foolish things just because “everyone else” was doing them.\u00a0\u00a0 So now, it appears that a naive citizenry, led by various rulers and magistrates, is doing or tolerating whatever the Supreme Court says is lawful.\u00a0 Indeed, there are patently evil<\/em> (Lawless) deeds, which the Court now declares to be good<\/em>. “The Court” says\u00a0 that we – as a people – must tolerate (give our blessing or, at least, tacit respect to) \u00a0not only sodomy, but the legal sanctification and glorification of the same – endowing it with the majesty of holy matrimony.\u00a0 We are expected to do something immoral – tolerate evil – because the Court decreed it and, apparently, everyone else is doing it.\u00a0 We are expected, as good “law abiding Christians,” to tolerate the legalization of \u00a0lawlessness – of crime- as if\u00a0 law<\/em> had no meaning. If we in Wilmington cannot ride to D.C., walk to the Supreme Court, drag the villains out of their chairs of authority and treat them to a tar and feathering, let us at least defy them in our towns, villages, and cities.\u00a0 We ought \u00a0not tolerate the villainous deed known from ages past as sodomy.\u00a0 Much less ought we solemnize the same as marriage and thus defile that very institution which we hold to be holy and ordained by a holy God. \u00a0We say with Isaiah, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!” (see 5:20). The faithful Churches of Wilmington, therefore, denounce this villainy and bid the Court to recant.\u00a0 And if the Court\u00a0will not repent let it \u00a0be dismissed as a rogue institution whose rulings must hereafter be properly treated as blasphemous babblings to be\u00a0 trampled under foot. Accordingly, we advise our local magistrates –\u00a0City Council, County Commissioners, Mayor, judges, police, as follows: Disregard the opinion of the “High Court.”\u00a0 Let legislatures pass \u00a0resolutions stating that their domain rejects the opinion of the Court and shall honor and uphold their own\u00a0age-old Laws and those of all the states of the nation which hold sodomy to be a crime with its attendant sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Public Declaration from the Churches of God To the Community On Sodomy and the Desecration of Holy Matrimony Recommended by Michael Bray, \u00a023 October, 2015 We were taught as children and then did teach our own children not to follow the crowd and do foolish things just because “everyone else” was doing them.\u00a0\u00a0 So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ministry-of-the-churches-of-god","category-wilmington-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}