Where Do We Draw the Line?

 

[This article does a great job on the enforcement of all laws and rejection of unjust laws out of harmony with moral laws. – JS]

 

By Ann Morse

How will Christians be affected by the new same-sex “marriage” laws creeping across the country? We may end up paying a high price, as the story of Laura Fotusky shows.

Fotusky was working as a town clerk in small-town Barker, New York, when New York’s legislature legalized “marriage” between partners of the same sex on June 24 of this year. Fotusky got in touch with New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms and others to find out if there were any protections for town clerks who believed that helping facilitate “marriages” between homosexuals would violate their conscience. While protections existed for religious organizations that did not care to participate in the pretense that two men or two women could enter into a relationship designed by God for one man and one woman (something made obvious by the fact that the bodies of men and women sexually complement each other in a way that bodies of same-sex couples do not), Fotusky discovered there were no such protections for town clerks. As the Rev. Jason McGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, dryly noted, “It’s unfortunate that when state senators were busy protecting liberal special interests and padding their campaign accounts, that they failed to protect good people of faith.”

So Fotusky resigned her position, and wrote a remarkable letter to the Town of Barker Board and Barker residents explaining why—a letter that echoes themes from a famous epistle written some fifty years ago from a Birmingham jail by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fotusky pointed out that in legalizing same sex “marriage,” New York refused to protect people of faith, “even though our US constitution supports religious freedom.” (Actually, the Constitution demands that religious freedom be protected). Fotusky further noted, “I believe that there is a higher law than the law of the land. It is the law of God in the Bible. In Acts 5:29, it states, ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’”

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