Maine Rejects Same-Sex Marriage, Disproving “Inevitability” for our Nation and our Churches

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Maine voters have rebutted the Left’s claim that widespread acceptance of same-sex marriage is inevitable.  Pro-gay advocates cluelessly claimed California rejected same-sex marriage only because of Mormon money and socially conservative black voters. But Maine has few Mormons or blacks, is fairly socially liberal, and same-sex marriage advocates vastly outspent defenders of traditional marriage. Not a single state population has specifically voted for same-sex marriage. Thirty-one have now specifically rejected same-sex marriage. So far, same-sex marriage is imposed only by elites – usually courts, but sometimes state legislatures. Here’s IRD’s news release about the Maine result.

This is significant to IRD because church liberals insist that the denominations will inevitably reject biblical sexual standards and accept homosexual clergy and same-sex marriage. Many liberal church elites are like secular cultural elites in their presumptuousness. So far the only major denominations liberalizing their sexual standards are declining, liberal Protestant, and nearly all-white denominations in North America or Western Europe, or Australia and New Zealand. Are these dying churches really harbingers of the future? Hardly! Over 2 billion Christians, overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Pentecostal and Evangelical, still heed the historic Christian standard. Some liberal Protestants pretend otherwise. Here’s Connor Ewing’s report about a United Methodist Church-hosted rally for same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C.

IRD was founded back when leftist church elites argued that Liberation Theology, i.e. Christian Marxism, was the inevitable wave of the future. Then the Soviet Empire fell, and much of Liberation Theology became passé. Church leftists largely moved on from Marxism to sexual liberation. This too shall pass. Contrary to the secular determinists, traditional Christians know that nothing is inevitable except that God’s Church will prevail, and the Lord will forever remain on His throne.

Speaking of IRD’s old days, here’s my article about a former head of the World Council of Churches whom the Chilean government is honoring for having opposed the Pinochet dictatorship. Unfortunately, this churchman was not consistent in his supposed concern for human rights. He was shamelessly pro-Fidel Castro, pro-Sandinista, and pro-Soviet. Thank goodness those days are over.

Those battles involving church-support for Marxism belong to history.  But now left-leaning Evangelicals are determined to repeat the same mistakes that Mainline Protestants made decades ago. Here’s my article about the increasingly liberal National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which is preparing to condemn America’s nuclear weapons in the same way that the National Council of Churches is preparing once again to do. We all pray for peace and disarmament. But, too often, church leftists prefer idealistic fantasies to reality. Traditional Christianity is, above all, concerned with fallen human nature as it is, not the illusion of what it should be.

Speaking of idealistic fantasies, here’s Connor Ewing’s report about the annual Peace Conference at United Methodism’s Lake Junaluska in North Carolina and sponsored by the United Methodist Board of Church and Society. Speakers spent a lot of time criticizing Israel, which is purportedly the only obstacle to peace in the Middle East.

Finally, here’s IRD’s news release about a Religious Left coalition wanting the Federal Communications Commission to silence conservative radio and television commentators for promoting ”hate” speech. United Church of Christ, Presbyterians, Evangelical Lutherans, United Methodists, National Council of Churches, the same old crowd! So much for free speech.

Whoops, don’t forget this commentary by Faith McDonnell about the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. This Sunday, please remember millions of fellow Christians around the world who lack our freedoms to worship openly and freely.

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