FIRST-PERSON: Waiting on the other shoe
The Supreme Court's majority did not want to pay the political price that a decision as immediately sweeping as Roe v. Wade would have cost, seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. says. Instead, the majority decided to send a clear signal that such a case will now be well-received.
TODAY’S COURT RULINGS: How should same-sex marriage change the church’s witness?
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Supreme Court has now ruled on two monumental marriage cases, and the legal and cultural landscape has changed in this country. The court voted to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and remand the decision of the Ninth Circuit in the Proposition 8 case, holding that California’s Proposition 8 defenders didn’t have standing. The Defense of Marriage Act decision, meanwhile, used rather sweeping language about equal protection and human dignity as they apply to the recognition of same-sex unions. But what has changed for us, for our churches, and our witness to the Gospel?
