In its final decisions of the term the U.S. Supreme Court turned the natural law and the eternal law upside down with two rulings, one declaring as unconstitutional Proposition 8 in California, and one which essentially allowed gay marriage and allowed gays to be given full federal benefits.

This is going to soon put the American social, educational, moral, religious and spiritual fabric of this nation at war with itself; for the five majority justices, in their wisdom, struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, passed and signed by President Bill Clinton.

Thus this basically rips apart 2,000 years of Christian tradition and morality and moral clarity in one blow; traditionally, it has always been held throughout the ages that “marriage” was SOLELY between one man and one woman, no more and no less. It was essentially for procreation and it was a sacred union.

The justices arrogantly ignore the divine mandate coming from the ages, ignore the always-known complementarity between the sexes, one man to one woman; and gays of both sexes after the edict was announced were seen on TV as champagning themselves in their new found “freedom.”

Except that this “freedom” is not true “freedom” but inauthentic freedom — bogus. For the Holy and Triune God sees it as immoral and licentious and He says that gays practicing homosexual behavior will be punished at the end of a person’s time (death and judgment) and will result in the lack of salvation and damnation, no matter how unpleasant that will sound in the ears and eyes of one who does it. For the Lord has sworn in His Book and the tradition of the church that there is an inherent, sacred dignity to this complementarity of man and woman. To defy His Word and His Light and His Jesus is to court salvific disaster and one need not quote the Old Testament here but the Spirit-soaked St. Paul should give any gay person pause who contemplates getting into a “relationship”:

“God has given them up to shameful lusts; for their woman have exchanged the natural for that which is against nature and in like manner, the men also having abandoned the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one to one another, men doing shameful things and receiving in themselves the appropriate recompense of their perversity.” Romans 1 to 1.32.

So to soak oneself in a defiant sin-drenched attitude is to court disaster, against the Word Of God, the Divine Word of God, His Jesus, specifically.

The Supreme Court’s rulings, with super-liberal Anthony Kennedy providing the deciding vote, put American society at risk as we know it. Are children to read gay books? Are chaplains to marry gay couples? Are Christian churches to marry gay couples? What about the various syllabi of colleges regarding past gay “heroes”?

As of right now, as I understand it, homosexuals will be, by Supreme Court fiat, permitted to “marry” in 13 states but pressure on the rest will surely be coming, whether by vote of the people or courts. And what’s coming down the pike is what, crucially, is to be done with the little children? Illinois’ Catholic Charities’ orphanage has already been forced out of business by the state because it would not give little tots to practicing homosexuals. And the psychological damage to a young child being raised to a pair of such people has been documented many times in various journals.

After all, homosexuals must be treated with dignity and respect; for many of them, their condition is a cross to be endured chastely. Hence it is truly jaw-dropping to abandon the sanctity of true marriage, created in love by God, to exchange the true for the false, for something which is corrupt at its roots and poisonous, to yield further to depravity, inasmuch as souls are at risk. After all, isn’t salvation itself, gay or straight, what we are after?

Hensleigh is a resident of Kalispell.