What has happened to the America I knew? The question of same-sex marriage in America has risen to equal another moral dilemma that divided our nation more than forty years ago: abortion on demand. This past Friday, June 26, 2015 will be a date that will live in infamy just as Jan. 22, 1973 is remembered as the date the U.S. Supreme Court handed down their landmark decision that women had a constitutional right to terminate (kill) a baby during its first two trimesters.
What must be understood is that just because five or six judges rule in a certain manner – does not make that law a moral right. At the end of World War II, a trial was held in Nuremberg, Germany to try the guilt of members of the Third Reich. Many officers of the Third Reich followed orders of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party which were legal according to German law. The Trial of Nuremberg (1946), led by American judges, was to determine if those officers, even acting under orders, were guilty of international moral crimes.
The “Nuremberg Principles” derived from that trial stated seven principles, the fourth being: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior, does not relieve him responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”
The question pursuant to this article is: Who decides what a correct moral choice is and what is not? Does society vote to decide? If this is correct then the members of the Third Reich sentenced to death or imprisonment were sentenced unjustly. The German government, many years earlier made their actions legal. Is it the world in general that determines such actions moral or not? If the majority decides then it becomes a preference only and can never be ruled a “right”. Truth and moral issues can’t be decided upon by a majority vote. Rights and morality must stem from outside of man but be understood by the hearts of each man.
Therefore morality as well as rights must stem from a source higher than man. The framers of the Declaration of Independence state this in easy to understand terms, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all me are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
America was founded on the premise that we are a nation of laws, ruled by laws and not by men. The Supreme Court acted lawlessly on Friday by establishing new law not based on the U.S. Constitution but based on their preference. Congress is supposed to make law not the Supreme Court. Now the choice becomes each man’s individual decision. As the case was with the officers of the Third Reich, each person must decide: Do I obey the lawless, immoral laws legalized by the government or do I obey the moral law of a higher source, who sits on the Supreme Court of the Universe, the Creator Himself, Jesus Christ?