Continuing on the theme of Jesus and statements re: homosexuality, notice that when Christ was arguing with the Pharisees (who were trying to trap him) about the propriety of divorce (Mark 10, verses 6-10), He said that if a man divorces his wife he forces her to commit adultery. He didn't bring up men-on-men marriage, etc., because it would have been an absurdity, like asking Jesus "is it okay to murder a baby as it is being born?" It would not have entered into the mind of anyone at that time that such a thing as SSM could legally occur--homosexuality was an abomination according to Jewish law, and a homosexual act would then have been considered grave sin, and not the basis for marriage, for heaven's sake.

Mike, you're wrong. Jesus did indirectly allude to homosexuality when he stated Matthew 11:23: "And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in wicked Sodom, it would still be here today." (This is "the new living translation" (2007).) Also, when asked about the propriety of divorce, Jesus quoted Genesis stating that God made them male and female and for this reason a man shall leave his parents and cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh. (I'm paraphrasing Mark 10: 6-10. Jesus did not need to lecture on gay marriage because to even propose such a thing in His time would have been preposterous.

Gay marriage will tie the country in legal knots. It will cause further erosion in the bedrock institution for creating and nurturing new life. It is like building a house with bogus bricks--a little swift wind, a little shake-up, and the whole structure comes tumbling down. The fact that our feckless politicians are evolving is just a symptom of a deeper underlying problem of moral rootlessness. We are in for some very bad times before this works itself out--and it will go or we'll go. A society built on gay marriage and abortion is a society headed for a fall. God won't help--and if God does not bless our nation, we're toast.

I guess the Republicans want to lose this election, just as they did when they ran the non-Witch and other hopeless candidates. What on earth is wrong with the party? Can't we produce someone more honorable than this pond-scum? It is sickening.

Ms. Herzog, excellent article. The LGBT agenda has always been a thinly disguised attack on the faithful of all faiths which oppose homosexual acts and gay marriage. Christians come in for especially harsh treatment (which probably is an indicator of the truthfulness of its theology--Satan knows the real thing when he comes up against it, and rages). Christians are being targeted for lawsuits for attempting to practice their religion. It will get worse, I'm afraid. But when civilizations reach this point in debauchery, they have historically encountered various external and internal types of failure and collapse which leads to a moral corrective. This time will be no different. God is in control, and God will not be mocked.

Here's Romans 1, verses 21-24 (partial), Catholic Living Bible translation: "Yes, they knew about him all right, but they wouldn't admit it or worship him...the result was that their foolish minds became dark and confused. ...So God let them go ahead into every sort of sex sin, and do whatever they wanted to--yes, vile and sinful things with each other's bodies. Even their women turned against God's natural plan ...and indulged in sex sin with each other." And if you reply "don't impose your values on me," I say "and don't YOU impose your hedonism and moral relativism on ME." A behavior is not a race. It's so elementary if you understand the operation of free will, conscience and the redemption of the soul by grace.

Gay marriage will destroy the West. We'll be tied in legal knots from here until eternity. There's a complete lack of common sense in the West now. When God is rejected, anything goes. This is described in Romans when St. Paul says that people that reject God are in turn rejected by Him and given over to every manner of depravity, sexual and otherwise. It has all happened before (see Rome, 476 AD) and it will happen again. But America will not survive in its current form, and not just because of sexual chaos--there's also the matter of the exploding debt, which parallels the exploding sinfulness of our culture, which sees fit to kill human babies but saves baby seals.

The professor violated the student's first amendment rights to practice his religion. Students should not be compelled to desecrate a holy person under threat of administrative penalty. I hope the entire class sues the university. As many have noted, if this had been done with the name of Mohammed, the entire university would now be under a Fatwa.

A minor blip on the Historical radar? Read history. Was the FAll of Rome 476 AD (the homosexuals were running wild then, too) a blip? The tail is wagging the dog (the least learned and important part of the body politic is ruling the rest of us with their hedonistic decrees and demands). It can't and won't last. Why do you think things are so wretched? Because we've turned our backs on God. So He is turning His back on us. And without God, we are lost as a person, family, city, state, nation, you name it, the center will not hold.

A minor blip on the Historical radar? Read history. Was the FAll of Rome 476 AD (the homosexuals were running wild then, too) a blip? The tail is wagging the dog (the least learned and important part of the body politic is ruling the rest of us with their hedonistic decrees and demands). It can't and won't last. Why do you think things are so wretched? Because we've turned our backs on God. So He is turning His back on us. And without God, we are lost as a person, family, city, state, nation, you name it, the center will not hold.

You're wrong, my friend. God won't bless a morally obtuse and rebellious people. If God does not watch over the watchman, the watchman watches in vain. That's how 9/11 occurred: twin towers struck, twin errors noted: abortion and gay marriage. God invariably acts when children are systematically murdered. He won't help. Who will get us first? Al queda, Iran or N. Korea? Hm, could be Cyprus. Europe has renounced Christ and now there is going to be hell to pay.