Many bible-believing Christians all over this country had an odd mix of emotions this patriotic weekend. Some of them were willing to express those emotions…others were so bothered by what they were feeling they were ashamed to express it. Let me see if I can put into words what some of you are feeling.
It’s the 4th of July weekend…it’s the weekend for all that is Americana…the nostalgia…of baseball, fireworks, apple pie, and Norman Rockwell paintings…the childhood memories of chasing fire flies or lightening bugs during a July sunset. And while you may have partaken with family and friends in some of those traditional Fourth of July gatherings and events. Something was missing. It just wasn’t the same.
Why? Because the America you remember celebrating doesn’t exist any more. That statement is so hard for me to say. It’s the very reason some of us have not put any words to the emotion we felt this weekend. We don’t want to admit it. We can’t bring ourselves to say it. We don’t want to say it because we don’t want it to be true. We don’t want to say it because it’s heart breaking to see what is becoming of a nation that so many have given their lives to protect. In no way do we want to dishonor their commitment and sacrifice.
We’ve known that things have been changing for a while and we have even seen the pace of moral decline pick up speed in the last decade but we have held out hope that some how…some way…it would return back to the way it used to be. But the Supreme Court’s recent decision to federally legalize gay marriage…not only legalized gay marriage…it was the wake up call to those of us in a hopeful daydream…that the concept of this being a Christian nation has long since past.
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