What is DOMA? It stands for Defense of Marriage Act and it was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. The law declares that the United States of America defines a legal marriage strictly as the union of one man and one woman.
Therefore, under DOMA, no other form of marriage is legitimately recognized and thus protected by the U.S. Constitution. But that's about to change.
It matters more why America has reached this proverbial fork in the historical road rather than how America got to that road. We know how we got to this road. We got there because America has become a post-Judeo-Christian nation.
But the reason why we got there is because America's churches have lost their influence over the land. They have become cultural white elephants that stand more as reminders of America's distant past rather than moral beacons of light in our modern debauched and depraved times.
Travel through any large city such as Chicago and you'll see what I mean. You'll notice the contradiction; churches on almost every block sharing the same turf with violent, heavily armed gang-bangers, drug dealers, prostitutes, addicts, homeless people etc.
Why have these churches lost their influence? Because they've abandoned the Bible as the guiding moral light that contains God's transcendent laws, commandments and path to salvation and eternal life through Jesus Christ. These churches have substituted the Bible with the useless social gospel that replaces Christ with government. In the context of these dead, corrupt churches, Christ has been reduced to an historical figure who's no longer relevant in the modern world.
And so, it stands to reason that when the U.S. Supreme Court is now poised to change the definition of marriage that has been clearly defined for 6,000 years as the union of a man and a woman, then the Christian Church in America is dead. Not declining or waning, but flat out dead.
Rob Bell, the former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, has become the spokesman for America's corrupt, apostate churches. While he claims to be an "expert" on biblical teachings concerning marriage, fidelity and homosexuality, he sounds more like a secular propagandist.
Here's what he said recently regarding gay marriage: "Yes, I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think that the church needs to just … this is the world that we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are."
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