Homeschool News & Views

Issue 69, May 18, 2008

From Homeschool Helpers

In association with Pass It On Ministries

By Dan L. White

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California led the nation again this week. Not in good things, but in evil, as they often do.

Not long ago California passed a law requiring the teaching of homosexuality to all public school students in the state. Then a California court ruled that all homeschooling was unconstitutional in California.

Now the California Supreme Court has ruled that a law which was passed by a 61% vote of the people banning homosexual marriage is null. This decision was made by a narrow 4 to 3 majority. In effect the vote of one person has totally eliminated the votes of millions of California citizens.

In 2000 California passed Proposition 22, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. This court decision completely overturns that and all other such regulations. The court equated homosexuality with race, giving it civil rights status. This was a radical departure from past precedent. No other state supreme court has ruled that sexual orientation is a protected class.

Many states have passed such one man-one woman definitions of marriage. Usually these have passed with a greater majority than in California. Often the margin is about 3 to 1. Such decisions are still subject to the tyrannical, despotic decisions of a few left wing lawyers who wind up in the kingly position of judges. This small number of lawyers winds up controlling the lives of everyone in the whole country, to a more or less degree. What happens in California and Massachusetts and New York does affect the rest of us in the country ultimately.

The United States was thought to have established a near perfect Republican form of government, with power balanced rather evenly between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. That balancing was done to prevent the tyranny that had existed before in the person of the English king. However, James Madison, who is considered the Father of the Constitution because he had more input into it than any other man, expressed reservations about the system shortly after it was put into effect. He said that it was not their intention that the courts have such last word power in the government. They did not purposely design the government that way.

James Madison’s forebodings have proven correct. In the last half-century judges have usurped power far beyond what was once considered reasonable. Now judges are saying there are constitutional guarantees that two men or two women can marry. Honestly, such people as these judges would actually have been ridden out of town on a rail at the time of the writing of the US Constitution. They would have been tarred and feathered, at best.

The conservatives in California are declaring that they will attempt to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot to do the same as Proposition 22 – to declare that marriage is only between one man and one woman. Then, it is said, the judges will not be able to declare such unconstitutional, since it itself will be a part of the constitution. However, there is no limit to the mechanisms such liberals will employ to force their will on the people. Surely the first thing they need to do in California is to impeach these judges.

There is an obvious pattern to what is going on in California. With the law requiring the teaching of homosexuality in the schools, with the court decision criminalizing homeschooling, and with the court decision overturning the ban on homo marriage, the left wing is forcibly taking control of the lives of California citizens. They are seeking to force their anti-Christian religious beliefs on everyone. They are not interested in the will of the majority. They are only interested in controlling the majority’s will. They are able to do that only because most people don’t really care enough to speak out against what is happening.

It is interesting to see who comes down where on this decision. Men like James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Don Wildmon of American Family Association immediately denounced this court catastrophe. Ellen DeGeneres, America’s favorite daytime TV talk show host, immediately declared she was going to get married. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would not seek to oppose the court decision.

Schwarzenegger is an interesting study in the liberal blitzkrieg in California. When the California Assembly first sent Schwarzenegger the bill requiring teaching of homosexuality in the schools, he vetoed the bill. The next year they sent it to him again and he signed it into law. Now he says he will not oppose the court decision forcing gay marriage into the state against the will of the people. When the court criminalized homeschooling, Schwarzenegger said he would oppose that. At least for the time being. Arnold’s life principles don’t seem to run too deeply.

I very much think that people are known for what they stand against more than what they stand for.

For example, we stand against making a mockery of marriage. We not only stand for marriage. We stand against mocking marriage. Therefore, if someone lives together for some time and then they decide to “get married,” we will not go to that “wedding.” They have mocked God by living together without marriage and then they have a big pretentious ceremony, as if God is then going to give them His blessing, and they expect us to give our blessing to that. We will not.

When people live together like that, there is only one chance in five that they will stay together. The curse of God is on that marriage mockery.

When we refuse to go to a mock wedding like that, people get very upset. We are willing to face that upset because we believe so strongly in marriage that we are willing to stand against it when it is defiled. That’s why I say you can tell more about people by what they stand against than just what they stand for. When they stand against something, they have to be willing to take the heat. That shows what they really believe.

The other day I was talking with a man who had been an elder in a fairly notable church organization. He said that church had made a deliberate decision not to speak out against sin. I had noticed that in their magazine they always stand for prophecy and never stand against sin. I thought maybe they were just spiritually dumb. But he said that they had deliberately decided to avoid speaking out against the sin in society to save themselves trouble.

So this church stands for the good news of the Kingdom of God but not against sin. Again, you can tell more about people by what they stand against than what they stand for. This church does not stand against sin, but stands against standing against sin. That tells tales about them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger reminds me of public school Christians. They don’t stand against a lot. You see, when it comes to the battle that is going on right now to turn America into Sodom, Arnold is not a lot of help for our side. And if he is not helping our side, then he is helping the other side.

Rev 3:15-16, to Laodicea, MKJ

(15) I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.

(16) So because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

Make no mistake. This California Supreme Court decision is a very big event in the country. Some Christians, like James Dobson and Don Wildmon, have come out very strongly against the California legal tyranny. Others have just Schwarzeneggered and remained silent. You might observe how your local church group reacted to this event.