| February 9, 2010 |
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Worldviews and Same Sex Marriage
by Kerby Anderson
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Almost every day we see the clash of worldviews, and the current political debate in the District of Columbia provides a perfect example of this. Last week I had Chuck Colson on my radio program. One of the issues we talked about was the impact of the decision by the D.C. City Council to legalize same sex marriage.
Chuck Colson documented in a recent Breakpoint commentary that Catholic Charities has been serving the poor of Washington, D.C. for decades. "They run shelters, feed the hungry, and care for foster children." On the program we talked about the fact that the city pays Catholic Charities for the services, and the charity itself kicks in another $10 million of its own money. And it provides an army of volunteers.
The recent action by the D.C. City Council may bring all of this good work and ministry to an end. The reason is simple. As a city contractor, Catholic Charities will be in violation of this recently passed law concerning same sex marriage. In order to comply, they would have to violate church teachings.
As I point out in my book, A Biblical Point of View on Homosexuality, when Catholic Charities in Boston was faced with a similar conflict between state law and church teaching, they stopped providing adoptions. They could not in good conscience provide adoptions for homosexual couples. Catholic Charities in the District of Columbia faces a similar conflict and will not recognize same sex marriages as legitimate.
This conflict could have been avoided. Other states (e.g., Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont) that have same sex marriage laws made exemptions for religious groups. The D.C. City Council could have made an exemption but did not. A writer for the Wall Street Journal concludes, "In the conflict between gay rights and religious rights, the city favors gay rights."
In a recent commentary, I noted that a commissioner for the EEOC made it clear that when there is a conflict between religious liberty and homosexual rights, she says that "sexual liberty" should win. Social conservative commentators summarized the view this way: "Gays win, Christians lose." This illustrates the clash of worldviews between the homosexual agenda and a biblical worldview. I'm Kerby Anderson, and that's my point of view. |
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