On September 21, 1996 the US Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act. It was one of the most important and wonderful laws passed by Congress in modern times. Then, on June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court rendered its landmark Obergefell vs. Hodges decision which voided and wiped out the Defense of Marriage Act. It was one of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court in history. Below, I have chronicled these two events for you. And you just must understand them and how they changed US history.
As I mentioned above, this Public Law 104-199 (110 Statute 2419), passed by both Houses of Congress on September 21, 1996 was called The Defense of Marriage Act. Most legal analysts defined it as: “In determining the meaning of this Act of Congress, the word ‘marriage’ means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.”
It was a good law. It upheld the meaning of marriage as expressed in the Bible and defined marriage as it was understood and acknowledged by most all of the population of America, both liberals and conservatives.
The Defense of marriage Act was not only acknowledge and welcomed by conservatives, but was welcomed by most all liberals in America. On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and stated: “I have long opposed governmental recognition of same-gender marriages and this legislation is consistent with that position.”
In 2000, Hillary Clinton stated: “Marriage has historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.”
On February 2, 2004 Barack Obama stated in Chicago: “I am not a supporter of gay marriage. I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation. I know that is true in the African-American community.”
So, the population all across America was very much in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act, including most all leaders, both private a governmental.
Then on June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court rendered its landmark Obergefell vs. Hodges decision, which stated that all states (1) must recognize marriage between two same-sex individuals within their state; and (2) must recognize marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states.
This amazing decision wiped out the Defense of Marriage Act and rendered it mute and ineffective. In 2015 we thought that the Supreme Court was conservative at that time. However, this decision proved otherwise. Legal analysts across the country could only say that there must have been a schism in the Supreme Court.
President Biden invited a drag queen, Marti Gould Cummings, to the White House to celebrate signing what is being referred to as the “Dis-Respect for Marriage Act,” effectively repealing the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 and making the liberal Obergefell decision into a Federal law. This decision was a flagrant creation of federal law by the Supreme Court, as never intended by the Constitution.
Of the decision, Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee stated: “This irrational, unconstitutional rejection of the expressed will of the people will prove to be one of the court’s most disastrous decisions. The Supreme Court isn’t the supreme branch. Five lawyers on the Supreme Court can no more repeal the laws of nature and nature’s God on marriage than they can the laws of gravity.
Huckabee further added: “This irrational, unconstitutional decision threatens religious liberty — the heart of the 1st Amendment. The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being. The only outcome worse than this flawed, failed decision would be for the President and Congress, two co-equal branches of government, to surrender in the face of this out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny.”
Franklin Graham stated: “The court — since it never defined marriage — doesn’t have the right to redefine it. God gave us marriage. Period. And God doesn’t change his mind.
Graham stated further: “I’m disappointed because the government is recognizing sin. This court is endorsing sin. God gave marriage between a man and a woman and that’s what marriage is. If pastors are going to be forced to provide marriage services for gay couples, I’m not going to do it. Given the choice of obeying God or the government, I believe Christians will obey God, even if there is hell to pay.”
Abraham Lincoln stated in his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861: “I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court.
Lincoln stated further: “The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of the eminent tribunal.”
So, the Obergefell vs. Hodges decision is still the law of our land. And biological men are playing sports against girls and parading around naked in girl’s locker rooms. But I hope and pray that our Congress will pass a law to overturn and wipe-out the Obergefell vs. Hodges decision.
Jesus taught in Mark 10:6-9: “But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’”
The Obergefell vs. Hodges decision is being taught in many of our public Grade Schools, and is causing all manner of confusion to those young people. So, remember, Jesus added a warning in Matthew 18:6: “If anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
Ron
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