Bride, the church, marriage is a picture of the promise. Ephesians number five 3132 says for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined and the two shall become one flesh. You dont have to dash buchanans choose to embrace, god designed men and women were you can reject all of that and you can make your own alternative truth, but you cannot exchange what god has spoken and verified in nature, many have tried and history documents that folly. In the past, stating such a position was known as practicing religious freedom and freedom of speech. And thousands if not millions whose faith and conscience will not allow them to respect any decision that fundamentally rejects god his word and the natural order. If majority redefines marriage thousands of christians will respectfully refuse to acknowledge such a ruling has any jurisdiction over their lives. In the spirit of Martin Luther king we will do any attempt to enforce such a ruling isnt just. More importantly
They said they couldnt think of anything. If we go to a hand higher standard of review now weve reached the ultimate thing that everybody was worried about and there seems to be a lot of danger if youre going to strike down these laws. Are they going to strike down these laws . And if so by what vote . I think the most likely outcome is a five to four decision with Justice Kennedy. Ive gone back and read what they said at windsor and im prepared to argue that he left himself brewing in that opinion to join a majority in this case. His opinion emphasized federalism and what the courts were not deciding in the windsor case but he said very little about what he thought the proper resolution of the state law issue was. I think theres a nontrivial chance that it could be six three where he gets on board with existing marriages without getting on board with creation of new marriages. I think those are the two most likely outcomes. Also a slight possibility, but not likely, a straight up majo
Conservative religious lead tore the National Press club for a discussion about the Upcoming Supreme Court cases and their positions on the cases. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] i want to start right on time. Were grateful for the folks at cspan coming in and filming the discussion today so we want to be conscious of their presence. I appreciate the audience of cspan. My name is rick scarborough. Myself, along with several others who are here most especially matt st. Stavor are the originators of the marriage pledge. There are Copies Available for everybody. They were stacked outside. Defend marriage. Org where you can both read the pledge, see the key signers we now have as of yesterday morning over 6,000 who signed the pledge. We have been adding several hundred a day of late and all of that will be discussed in the course of the presentations today. We had two esteemed members of the press coverage who could not be here because of the one case being
Founder of Common Good Foundation and come to alliance. And a catholic clergyman. Im also on the path towards ph. D in my own church. Its my honor to stand with all of you ended in order to be part of this putsch piggybacked pastor rick, i dont drop it was intentional but it is certainly good optics because im standing with the thousands in fact standing with millions and im standing in a 2000 year history of the Christian Church reaching beyond that to mount sinai go all the way back to the beginning of creation itself. And defending marriage is what it is. Between one man and one woman, intended for life open to life and formative of family. And family is the first society. Its the first school, the first church the first government come the first economy, the first mediating association. The entire social order is built on the family. And i stand fully within the tradition of my church and the fact that classical christian tradition in saying it is not just a religious position i am
Whatever happened to abraham lincolns pronouncement in the gettysburg address at hours that the government of the people, by the people and for the people. We make the decisions for ourselves. It is rapidly being replaced now by a government of the courts, by the courts and for the courts. Let me get to the bottom line. If the u. S. Supreme Court Redefines Marriage to an good samesex marriage, we all know you and i all know that this will not be the end of the matter. An avalanche of court cases will be filed unrelated issues that we can even imagine today. We believe or should i say i believe that religious liberty will be insolvent from every side. Indeed, that authority happened. Pastors may have to officiate samesex marriages and they could he prohibited from passages of scripture. Those who refuse to comply will likely be threatened legally and as the years go by, some will be subjected to prison sentences. Christians who operate as mrs. Will be required to dance to the government