The Coming Apostasy: Exposing the Sabotage of Christianity From Within by Mark Hitchcock

Author:Mark Hitchcock [Hitchcock, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781496414076
Amazon: 1496414071
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2017-03-07T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

THE WATERSHED MOMENT FOR THE CHURCH

JUNE 26, 2015, WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT in American history. The United States Supreme Court, in a case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, held that “the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment couples of the same-sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty.”[1] The ruling further prohibits any state from hindering the marriage of same-sex couples and abrogates all statutes and state constitutional provisions that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

This ruling dealt a devastating blow to those who believe the Bible and its definition of marriage as a monogamous, heterosexual union and to all who hold the traditional view of marriage that has been recognized from time immemorial. With one stroke, natural marriage was no longer the exclusive definition of marriage in America. As saddening as the ruling is, it is not surprising to anyone who has followed the cultural trajectory of this issue. It was just a matter of time since the onset of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Nevertheless, what has been even worse than the US Supreme Court decision, if that’s possible, is the response of many professing Christians, even Christian leaders, to this issue. In many quarters of professing Christianity the decision was met with acceptance, approval, and even applause, so much so that many mainline denominations and progressive “Christians” beat the Supreme Court to the punch.

A year before the Obergefell decision, the Presbyterian Church (USA) approved homosexual marriage. “The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted by large margins… to recognize same-sex marriage as Christian in the church constitution, adding language that marriage can be the union of ‘two people,’ not just ‘a man and a woman.’”[2]

About two weeks before the Supreme Court’s decision, Tony Campolo, a well-known, outspoken Christian leader, came out in favor of gay marriage. Campolo’s rationale was explained in CBN News:

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