“This is not your father’s culture war”

by Tom Goodman

From William McGurn for the WSJ:

Back when…Roe v. Wade established a right to privacy that…appears nowhere in the Constitution, [Harry Blackmun] wrote under the conceit that his decision would resolve the issue once and for all. Instead, his 1973 ruling launched the culture wars.

Obergefell is Roe on steroids….Roe didn’t demand much of those on the other side—or on the sidelines. Obergefell is another thing altogether.

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What can it possibly matter to you, [we] were asked, if two men or two women who love each other call their relationship marriage?

We learned that it matters a great deal….

The right for men to marry men or women to marry women is only half of the equation—and not even the most important half at that.

The other half involves antidiscrimination statutes and regulations, not to mention the discretion of federal, state and even private bureaucracies regarding everything from funding and accreditation to tax exemption.

In short, there is nothing live-and-let-live about the way this movement has operated the past few years, and to pretend otherwise requires a willful blindness….

As Justice Samuel Alito suggested in his dissent, thousands of Americans who never dreamed that the issue would affect them will soon get highly personal lessons in how the legalization of same-sex marriage by judicial fiat threatens their schools, their institutions and even their livelihoods. This is not your father’s culture war.

We prepared for this several weeks ago in Week 2 of our series, In and Out: Seeking Christ in Sexual Confusion. The series of sermons and all resources are here.