Earlier today in a 6 to 4 decision The United States Supreme Court has ruled that according to the “Law of The United States Constitution” Marriage is now legal according to the government.
The Supreme Court has found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, striking down bans in 14 states and handing a historic victory to the gay rights movement that would have been unthinkable just 10 years ago.
According to Supreme Just Kennedy, “The word that keeps coming back to me in this case is millennia,” he said then, referencing the amount of time societies had considered marriage to be only between a man and a woman.
But Kennedy was swayed by the fact that hundreds of thousands of married same-sex couples already exist and that they — and their children — are being treated differently by the law when they move to a state that doesn’t recognize their union. The states in the case also had trouble articulating why they had a compelling reason to deny that recognition, saying only that it was in the interest of children to only allow couples of the opposite sex to marry.
The responsibility of each person in the world not just the United States of America is to respect each individual as a person who is created by God for his glory and honor. Each individual in the entire world has a responsibility to acknowledge that we are created in the image of God and honor our creator for investing inside every person the ability to show joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, patience, love and an ability to forgive one another.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling in a strange way has somehow concluded that being created in the imagine of God somehow allows the entire world population who is created in God’s image to “legally” engage in transactions as decided by local jurisdictions instead of our creator.
What must also be considered is globally what is seen as the expectation of all people in matters. For instance, the ruling today by our Supreme Court represents only a small sampling of how this same topic is viewed worldwide by over 195 Countries instead of a sampling of a few:
The United States’ State Department recognizes 195 independent countries around the world. Their list of 195 countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America and its allies. Missing from the State Department’s list is one entity that may or may not be considered a country, depending on who you talk to.
The One Outsider
Taiwan meets the requirements of independent country or state status. However, due to political reasons, it fails to be recognized by the international community as independent.
As it stands, the following 18 countries have legalized same-sex marriage and two allow the union to take place in some jurisdictions.
COUNTRIES WHERE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
2000 The Netherlands
2003 Belgium
2005 Canada
2005 Spain
2006 South Africa
2009 Sweden
2009 Norway
2010 Portugal
2010 Iceland
2010 Argentina
2012 Denmark
2013 Uruguay
2013 New Zealand
2013 France
2013 England / Wales
2013 Brazil
2014 Luxembourg
2014 Scotland
COUNTRIES WHERE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS LEGAL IN SOME JURISDICTIONS
2003 United States
2009 Mexico
Source: Pew Research Center, January, 2015
Here’s my summary, statistics was a class that I didn’t like in my Masters or PhD studies but it has proven to be helpful in so many ways. But for this analysis statistical analysis isn’t necessary only simple division of 18/195 = .0923076923. This means that today’s Supreme Court ruling is in the eyes of the world a minority ruling instead of a majority ruling. The Supreme Court ruling today represents more like a 10% in favor verses 90% opposed world ruling.
In God’s sight it would look more like 0% in favor vs. 100% opposed to the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Acts 5:29-32 Peter and other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings! The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. God exalted him to his own right had as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins.We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him. When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.
In the process of obeying God, we always respect the humanity of everyone. In the process of obeying God, we never speak in an unkind manner against our government but rather always pray for those that are leading our country.
